Technical Community Manager, Campus Leaders

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

7d•$216,000 - $240,000•Remote

About The Position

OpenAI is seeking a full-time program and community manager to shape its presence on college campuses. This role will focus on building relationships with student leaders at leading global campuses with dense populations of builders and future startup founders. The manager will be responsible for understanding campus cultures, identifying opportunities for OpenAI to provide value, and supporting student leaders in their efforts to build and engage their communities. This position involves close collaboration with various internal teams and external agencies to ensure a positive experience for students learning and building with OpenAI. The goal is to foster a strong network of student leaders who are shaping the next generation's interaction with AI.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

Identify and develop deep relationships with standout student leaders 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.