Tech Lead Manager, Education
About The Position
The Education team at OpenAI is focused on developing products that enhance learning through AI. This team collaborates with higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and national partners, and conducts research on AI's impact on learning and cognitive outcomes. The product pod, established approximately three months ago, is responsible for ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product and research initiatives. They work closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to transform education-specific insights into product experiences that can broadly improve ChatGPT. Recent projects include new Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes, education initiatives for countries, advancements in higher education, and early product development like Study Mode.
Requirements
- Several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.
- Still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.
- Strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.
- Ability to lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.
- Effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.
- Genuinely interested in education, learning science, and how AI can improve learning outcomes.
- Experience operating in a large, complex technology organization.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in education, learning products, learning science, or edtech.
- Experience across both larger technology companies and startup-like environments.
- Experience building products that connect research, data pipelines, and user-facing product experiences.
- Experience with B2B products that can later scale into broader consumer workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.
- Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows.
- Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement.
- Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements.
- Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams.
- Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Commitment to reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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