Technical Program Manager, Robotics

OpenAI • San Francisco, CA

4d • $207,000 - $285,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Technical Program Manager, Robotics Facilities, you will serve as the Robotics point-of-contact for cross-functional partners supporting the design and construction of Robotics sites. You will consolidate requirements, priorities, and decisions across Robotics disciplines and route those inputs through your counterpart, who manages design and construction partners and coordinates their workstreams. You will clarify requirements, coordinate technical and operational inputs, manage dependencies and changes, and drive timely decisions through planning, design, construction, commissioning, and handover. This role calls for sound program judgment as research and operational needs evolve. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 4 days a week.

Requirements

• Experience leading technical programs involving hardware and physical infrastructure, ideally in robotics, laboratories, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex environments.
• Ability to reconcile competing priorities across technical and operational teams and translate evolving needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to read drawings and technical documentation, ask useful questions about building systems and equipment interfaces, and involve specialists at the right time.
• Disciplined program management across requirements, schedules, dependencies, risks, decisions, and change management.
• Ability to build strong working relationships across research, engineering, operations, and facilities partners, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to secure alignment.
• Comfortable moving between technical detail and broader program priorities across multiple concurrent efforts, focusing teams on decisions and dependencies that affect progress.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate requirements, priorities, and decisions across Robotics research, engineering, and operations teams, providing the Real-Estate Workplace counterpart with a clear and coordinated view of Robotics needs.
• Translate Robotics workflows and equipment needs into documented requirements for floor layouts, utilities, network connectivity, environmental conditions, material flow, physical access, and operational support, working with technical owners to define acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate Robotics design reviews, ensuring technical owners assess proposals, resolve open questions, and confirm that agreed requirements are reflected in project documents.
• Track Robotics deliverables and dependencies against project milestones, surface risks and changes early, and secure decisions needed to keep work moving.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Security, IT, Environmental Health & Safety, and other specialists to resolve issues affecting Robotics requirements and readiness.
• Coordinate Robotics readiness for equipment installation, moves, commissioning, and operational handover, with clear ownership and follow-through.
• Identify facility constraints that slow experimentation or operations, and use feedback from Robotics teams to improve requirements and handover practices for future projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed