Technical Community Lead

About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We build models and products that help people learn, create, and solve problems—and we work to do so safely and responsibly.

About the Team

OpenAI’s products are talked about by people, not just press and pundits. More than 900 million people use our tools each week, learning from one other and passing along what works. Their stories shape our reputation and encourage others to try our products.

Our community team builds direct relationships & channels with people who use our tech then amplifies their stories and use cases so peers can learn from them and channels their insights to our product and research teams.

About the Role

We’re hiring a full-time program and community manager to shape how we show up on college campuses where usage of our tools is most advanced.

This person will own relationships with a small group of campuses with dense populations of builders and future startup founders that are on the cutting edge of adoption and have a tremendous influence on how students, builders, and the broader world understands emerging technology.

You’ll be tasked with shaping our approach to how we build and measure our engagement on frontier campuses, aligning that strategy with cross-functional teams, and also providing personalized support to student leaders on these campuses.

You’ll work closely with community, marketing, product, recruiting, startup and education teams plus our agency to ensure students have the best possible experience learning and building with OpenAI.

In this role, you will:

• Identify and develop deep relationships with the standout student leaders who should have a closer relationship with OpenAI at leading global campuses with dense populations of builders and future startup founders.

• Learn the culture, priorities, and opportunities unique to each campus and identify where OpenAI can provide the most value.

• Support campus leaders in planning their semester strategy, recruiting members, and building sustainable engagement on campus.

• Serve as the primary point of contact between OpenAI and frontier campus chapters, helping students navigate resources, opportunities, and support.

• Partner with chapter leaders and groups to design and execute exceptional events, workshops, and campus activations.

• Design and refine engagement formats that help students across these campuses build and stay up to date with our tools.

• Connect campus leaders with relevant OpenAI teams, speakers, programs, partners and opportunities when appropriate.

• Coach and support campus leaders as they grow thriving communities and programs on their campuses. Forge a strong relationship network among campus leaders so they can learn from and support one another.

• Capture insights, playbooks, and best practices from frontier campuses and help translate them into resources for the broader Campus Leaders network globally.

• Surface exceptional students, projects, and community initiatives to relevant teams across OpenAI.

• Gather feedback from campus communities and share insights that can inform product, education, and community strategy.

• Continuously strengthen the network of student leaders shaping how the next generation learns, builds, and collaborates with AI.

Must-haves

• Deep knowledge of AI tools, including ChatGPT, Codex, and our APIs and coding ability, with comfort helping students build, debug, prototype, and apply OpenAI products in real, highly-technical projects.

• Has personally built, prototyped, or shipped projects using AI tools, APIs, agents, coding assistants, or related developer workflows.

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trusting, sincere relationships with ambitious, highly capable people.

• Strong project and program management skills, with experience coordinating and events, initiatives, or communities involving multiple stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, exercise good judgment, and navigate ambiguity.

• Strong pulse on AI-native builder culture: actively follows and participates in technical builder communities, understands what exceptional AI projects and workflows look like, and can identify standout students, projects, and communities early.

• Experience designing and executing community programs, events, workshops, fellowships, ambassador programs, or similar initiatives.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple campus relationships simultaneously.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with university students, campus organizations, startups, research communities, and/or developer ecosystems.

• Experience running hackathons, conferences, workshops, or other community-driven events.

• Experience gathering community insights and translating them into recommendations for product, education, or marketing teams.

• Experience creating community content, newsletters, guides, or playbooks to empower leaders on the ground.

• Existing relationships within leading universities, student organizations, research communities, or entrepreneurial ecosystems.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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