Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This AI Success Engineer role sits in a core SaaS motion where platform capability only matters if it becomes durable customer usage. OpenAI is operating as a scaled AI platform provider, and the listing signals work that connects product APIs and deployment realities with institutional outcomes in education. That combination is increasingly central as SaaS shifts from feature delivery to workflow transformation and measurable adoption.
For SaaS career development, the position offers a rare blend of post sales technical ownership and cross functional influence. Managing account health, activation depth, and rollout planning builds skills that translate across modern SaaS organizations, especially those selling into complex environments. The emphasis on surfacing field patterns and technical blockers also mirrors how strong customer facing teams shape product direction, packaging, and enablement at scale.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI’s AI Success Engineer team partners with the world’s most ambitious organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real business value. We guide customers from first deployment through scaled enterprise adoption. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, and sustained program and product delivery.
Our customers range from fast growing digital natives to the largest global enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI changes work, productivity, and innovation. This role sits at the center of that mission.
About the Role
The Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales point of contact for a portfolio of education institutions. You are responsible for driving account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, identifying high-impact academic and administrative use cases, and delivering measurable value to our education customers using OpenAI’s platform.
This role blends technical leadership, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. You will partner deeply with customer teams, map workflows, lead configuration and enablement, oversee deployment plans, and guide institutions toward high impact use cases that showcase the full value of our platform.
You will work closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research to ensure the customer experience is connected and successful across every touchpoint. Success in this role means accelerating adoption, increasing customer activation depth, guiding strategic use cases that get to production, and helping customers demonstrate tangible business impact.
This role is based in SF or NYC; we offer relocation benefits to new hires.
In this role, you will:
Lead the technical relationship for post-sale customers and act as their trusted advisor on deployment, adoption, and value realization
Own account health, adoption velocity, and ongoing technical deployment and success across your portfolio
Conduct technical enablement and configuration sessions across our broad product portfolio
Identify and validate use cases by embedding with customer teams to understand workflows and pain points
Lead account level coordination across multiple workstreams, including new product activation, change management, and customer rollout and deployment planning
Build strong relationships with provosts, CIOs, IT leaders, academic, and technical stakeholders and help align institutional goals with OpenAI capabilities
Translate customer objectives into an actionable adoption roadmap with clear sequencing, milestones, and KPIs
Partner with Solutions Architecture, Product, Engineering and Research by surfacing customer feedback, field patterns, and technical blockers and act as a cross functional navigator who keeps teams aligned, informed, and moving toward customer outcomes
Guide value realization through student, faculty, and institutional outcomes such as engagement, research productivity, operational efficiency, and learning impact, supported by baselines and reporting
Facilitate workshops for faculty, staff, and administrators on use case design, adoption best practices, champion building, and institution-wide enablement
Help drive expansions by identifying high leverage opportunities where OpenAI’s platform can power new workflows or lines of business
Serve as the technical advisor for existing customer implementations by guiding and optimizing account setup, configuration, etc.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
8+ years of experience in technical customer facing roles such as technical account management, technical GenAI consulting, solutions architecture, technical delivery leadership, or deep technical enterprise SaaS adoption work
Experience working with education institutions is preferred but not necessary
Deep, hands-on knowledge of OpenAI product capabilities, APIs, SDKs, connectors, and common integration patterns and able to explain model behavior, limitations, technical tradeoffs, embeddings, retrieval augmentation, and approaches to fine-tuning or custom model usage.
Can translate technical concepts into clear business language and help customers understand the strategic impact of AI technologies
Are comfortable embedding with customers to map workflows, identify requirements, and diagnose adoption challenges
Have excellent project and program management instincts and can lead multi workstream initiatives with clarity and structure
Enjoy being a thought partner for executive level stakeholders while also diving deep with technical teams
Operate with high ownership and can manage fast decision making, context switching, and dynamic customer needs
Have a strong record of driving technical deployments with hands-on on customer work and owning impactful adoption and value for large institutions with complex environments and multiple stakeholders
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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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