About the company
OpenAIās mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team is composed of PR/Media Relations, Events, Design, and other external-facing functions. The teamās ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. The Events team is a dynamic group dedicated to crafting extraordinary experiences that encompass our company's values and mission. Our team is driven by a passion for bringing people together to connect in meaningful ways.
Job Summary
In this role, you will:
šServe as the dedicated technical resource and advocate for our most important API customers, providing deep troubleshooting assistance/ ownership and educating customers on the use of our platforms. šBe among the foremost technical and troubleshooting experts for our API platform at OpenAI. You are the last line of defense before the core Engineering team. šPartner with engineering and customer teams to resolve issues, engaging with senior leaders internally or with customers and coordinating resources across multiple teams as needed. šTake learnings from resolving customer issues and figure out how to operationalize those solutions at scale, with Engineering, with our Go-To-Market team, etc. šBuild strong relationships with our customersā leaders and operators to ensure their applicationās success. šProvide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs.
You might thrive in this role if you:
šHave 5+ years of experience in technical support engineering or software engineering roles, with application development experience, ideally in tech startups or fast-paced environments. šEarned a Bachelorās degree in Computer Science or something similar. šCan proactively identify technical pain points in our and our customerās solutions. šHave proven experience building strong relationships with customers and cross-functionally to drive performance improvements. šHave a humble attitude, an eagerness to help others, and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to make both your team and our customers succeed. šOperate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize. šBuild and/or have shipped prototypes on top of our API platform, and have spent a meaningful amount of time developing expertise and product intuition in the space. šYou prefer short projects where you can go deep and chase a problem down vs. building long-term solutions over many months. You enjoy seeing multiple use cases, understanding the broad landscape, all while going deep on specific issues. šYou enjoy tinkering and experimenting. You enjoy novelty