Support Operations Manager

About the Team

The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. Given OpenAI's breakneck shipping cadence and growth - and the expectation that it will only accelerate - our ability to architect automation systems and agentic workflows for scale is central to our ability to maintain exceptional support quality in the face of AGI.

About the Role

We are seeking a Support Operations Manager who is equal parts builder, strategist, and operator. You'll own daily service health, automation programs, partner/vendor performance, and the tooling/systems that power them. While you'll be working with OpenAI software engineers to enhance and scale our operations - you'll also be prototyping yourself, using ChatGPT as a copilot. Help us define the future of support.

This is not a traditional support operations manager role. We're looking for people to help us define the future of support, who thrive at the intersection of team/project management, systems building, data science/engineering, and with deep craft experience in the support operations space.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Directly lead and evolve three subfunctions-frontline delivery operations, partner/BPO management, and systems & tooling-coaching them to push automation boundaries and deliver measurable capacity gains.

• Prototype quickly-leveraging ChatGPT, Jupyter notebooks, Retool, and other tools-to prove value before hardening with Engineering.

• Drive endtoend service governance for our partner/vendor teams: track automation rate, costtoserve, firstresponse time, productivity, CSAT, and backlog burn. Negotiate outcomebased BPO contracts and run datadriven QBRs that reward automation, not seat count.

• Act as the opinionated gatekeeper for "how work gets done," killing oneoff fixes in favour of reusable, datavisible systems.

• Upskill a traditionally (in industry) nontechnical team-pairprogramming with ChatGPT, running brownbags on agent orchestration, and mentoring operations who've never shipped code.

• Partner closely with Automations Engineering, Support Engineering, and Fraud & Risk to weave LLM tooling into every frontline workflow.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years leading support operations teams, and delight in coaching and driving accountability, raising the bar on performance and automation adoption.

• Build over buy - we want to leverage the flexibility and access that comes with working at OpenAI. You can hack Python, SQL, Retool, or shell scripts with an LLM copilot-even when you're learning the syntax on the fly.

• Think in systems, not tickets. Bottlenecks make you itch; you default to rootcause mapping and reusable architectures.

• Have a background in data science or data architecture-familiar with designing schemas, validating data quality, and applying statistical methods to turn raw signals into actionable insights.

• Chase outcomes, not neatness. You measure success in seconds saved and dollars avoided, not in perfect documentation (though you value it).

• Stay ruthlessly curious. You ask "Could an agent do this?" before assigning a human.

• Have seen hypergrowth. You've scaled support, trust & safety, or similar ops in a highvelocity tech company without letting quality slip.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Compensation Range: $240K