Technical Community Manager, Campus Leaders

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop deep relationships with standout student leaders at leading global campuses with dense populations of builders and future startup founders.
• Learn the culture, priorities, and opportunities unique to each campus and identify where OpenAI can provide the most value.
• Support campus leaders in planning their semester strategy, recruiting members, and building sustainable engagement on campus.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between OpenAI and frontier campus chapters, helping students navigate resources, opportunities, and support.
• Partner with chapter leaders and groups to design and execute exceptional events, workshops, and campus activations.
• Design and refine engagement formats that help students across these campuses build and stay up to date with OpenAI tools.
• Connect campus leaders with relevant OpenAI teams, speakers, programs, partners and opportunities when appropriate.
• Coach and support campus leaders as they grow thriving communities and programs on their campuses.
• Forge a strong relationship network among campus leaders so they can learn from and support one another.
• Capture insights, playbooks, and best practices from frontier campuses and help translate them into resources for the broader Campus Leaders network globally.
• Surface exceptional students, projects, and community initiatives to relevant teams across OpenAI.
• Gather feedback from campus communities and share insights that can inform product, education, and community strategy.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of AI tools, including ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs and coding ability, with comfort helping students build, debug, prototype, and apply OpenAI products in real, highly-technical projects.
• Has personally built, prototyped, or shipped projects using AI tools, APIs, agents, coding assistants, or related developer workflows.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trusting, sincere relationships with ambitious, highly capable people.
• Strong project and program management skills, with experience coordinating events, initiatives, or communities involving multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, exercise good judgment, and navigate ambiguity.
• Strong pulse on AI-native builder culture: actively follows and participates in technical builder communities, understands what exceptional AI projects and workflows look like, and can identify standout students, projects, and communities early.
• Experience designing and executing community programs, events, workshops, fellowships, ambassador programs, or similar initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple campus relationships simultaneously.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with university students, campus organizations, startups, research communities, and/or developer ecosystems.
• Experience running hackathons, conferences, workshops, or other community-driven events.
• Experience gathering community insights and translating them into recommendations for product, education, or marketing teams.
• Experience creating community content, newsletters, guides, or playbooks to empower leaders on the ground.
• Existing relationships within leading universities, student organizations, research communities, or entrepreneurial ecosystems.