Technical Program Manager, Developer Velocity
About this role
To eliminate engineering friction and make everyday development faster across ChatGPT, OpenAI requires a Technical Program Manager for the Developer Velocity team. The team partners with product, platform, infrastructure, and observability groups to ensure releases are safer, more predictable, and easier to operate.
The incoming professional will lead durable improvements to local development, continuous integration, testing, build systems, release trains, and post-deployment validation. Responsibilities include owning cross-functional roadmaps, aligning multiple groups around shared metrics, and driving the adoption of scalable developer tooling. A successful candidate combines rigorous systems thinking with technical program leadership to navigate complex, scaling environments.
What you will do
- Manage the cross-functional roadmap for local development, continuous integration, testing, build workflows, and release infrastructure.
- Establish a durable intake mechanism to prioritize developer friction using concrete evidence.
- Spearhead programs that boost deployment speed and safety, including pre-merge confidence, progressive rollout, and release guardrails.
- Enhance release train reliability and predictability across ChatGPT backend, web, mobile, and desktop platforms.
- Collaborate closely with platform, infrastructure, reliability, and observability groups to minimize deployment-related incidents.
- Define and operationalize clear metrics tracking developer productivity, build health, and release reliability.
What you need
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical programs focused on developer infrastructure, continuous integration and deployment, build systems, or release engineering.
- Ability to engage deeply with engineers regarding workflow architecture, deployment systems, operational tradeoffs, and risk.
- Track record of delivering measurable improvements in developer velocity, release reliability, or engineering efficiency.
- Experience transforming fragmented ownership and manual tasks into standardized, highly adopted mechanisms and tooling.
- Proficiency in utilizing qualitative data and metrics to prioritize work and define useful productivity benchmarks.
Benefits
- $207K – $445K salary range
- Offers Equity
- Relocation assistance
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
Where is this role located?
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. The company uses a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offers relocation assistance to new employees.
What compensation is provided?
The salary range is $207K to $445K, and the position includes offers for equity.
What does the Developer Velocity team do?
The Developer Velocity team partners with product engineering, platform, infrastructure, reliability, engineering acceleration, and observability teams to make everyday development faster and releases safer, more predictable, and easier to operate.