Tech Lead Manager, Education

About the Team

OpenAI’s Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes.

The team owns owns ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product/research work. The team partners closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to turn education-specific insights into product experiences that can improve ChatGPT more broadly.

Some of our recent work:

- New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leahbelsky_new-education-plugins-for-chatgpt-work-ugcPost-7490452691794612224-Qs00/?rcm=ACoAABieResBU17vLQB6PJl1aP5hT_4oszy7jNo&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&utm_source=social_share_send

- New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes https://openai.com/index/understanding-ai-and-learning-outcomes/

- Education for countries https://openai.com/index/edu-for-countries/

- Advancements in higher education https://openai.com/index/ai-education-opportunity/

- Early product work - Introducing Study Mode https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead and manage a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. This person will combine technical execution, product judgment, and people leadership: they will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape the product direction for how students and Educators use AI.

In This Role, You Will

- Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers.

- Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows.

- Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement.

- Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements.

- Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams.

- Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

- Have several years of direct people-management experience with engineers.

- Are still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work.

- Have strong product sense and can operate like a GM for a focused product area.

- Can lead senior engineers with credibility and clear technical direction.

- Are effective at cross-functional influence, communication, and project management.