Technical Systems Program Manager, User Operations

About the TeamThe User Operations team (Support) 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. About the RoleOpenAI’s top-of-funnel is evolving into a signal-driven, data-orchestrated engine powered by AI-native workflows, enriched customer intelligence, and increasingly interconnected systems. We are looking for a Technical Systems Program Manager to help drive the strategy, alignment, prioritization, and execution of these systems across Salesforce and adjacent platforms.This role will partner closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Data, and Enterprise Platform teams to operationalize scalable CRM workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong technical fluency, operational systems thinking, and stakeholder leadership with the ability to drive execution across highly cross-functional environments.This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and the team works a hybrid schedule (Monday - Wednesday in office). We will offer relocation assistance if needed. In this role, you will:Own and drive CRM systems initiatives across supportPartner with senior business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify operational pain points, define scalable solutions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and execute across Salesforce and adjacent platformsAlign cross-functional stakeholders including Revenue Operations, Support Delivery, Risk, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Enterprise Platform teams while driving prioritization and execution Help operationalize AI-native workflows by defining and building scalable automation, orchestration, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop processes in partnership with cross-functional teams You might thrive in this role if you have:You have 8+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in a program management, technical program management or adjacent roleStrong understanding of CRM workflows customer systems supporting user operations or support organizationsExperience working across CRM systems, routing engines, and adjacent systemsProven ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives from discovery and stakeholder alignment through execution and operationalizationStrong technical fluency across APIs, integrations, event-driven architectures, enterprise SaaS ecosystems, and Salesforce platform capabilities Experience partnering closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Security, and Enterprise Platform teamsExperience operating within SOX/SOC2-controlled environments with strong understanding of SDLC, QA, release management, and operational governanceStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and execution plansNice to HaveAbility to independently reason through technical system design, integration dependencies, and operational tradeoffs alongside engineering teamsExperience working within AI-native, high-growth, or highly ambiguous operating environmentsExposure to global support operationsAbility to operate scrappily and iteratively while maintaining a strong bias toward scalability, governance, and long-term maintainabilityAbout OpenAIOpenAI 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