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The Launch Programs team at OpenAI drives cross-functional planning, readiness, and execution for the company's most visible and strategic product moments. As a Launch Program Manager, you'll serve as the connective tissue between product builders and go-to-market teams, translating product ambitions into coordinated company-wide launch moments.
You'll partner closely with product teams to understand their roadmaps, requirements, and readiness needs, then drive alignment across marketing, communications, events, and operations to ensure smooth, high-quality execution. Your responsibilities include:
- Partnering with product teams to understand requirements and translate them into clear launch plans and timelines
- Driving cross-functional planning and execution across marketing, comms, events, and operations
- Serving as the central communications hub, driving alignment through clear updates, status reviews, and structured working rhythms
- Anticipating and proactively addressing launch risks, surfacing tradeoffs to leadership early
- Building and evolving launch frameworks, operating rhythms, and processes to scale the company's ability to execute complex launches predictably
- Representing the launch program function in senior stakeholder forums, helping shape launch strategy and cross-org coordination
You should have experience leading complex, high-impact product launches involving multiple functions and senior stakeholders. Strong program management and operational skills are essential—the ability to set clear timelines, track dependencies, and drive accountability. You communicate with clarity and confidence at all levels, build trust quickly, and can rally diverse stakeholders around a shared vision. You thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments, are solutions-oriented under pressure, and enjoy building systems and processes that bring order to ambiguity.
The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. OpenAI offers relocation assistance to new employees.
