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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Strategy & Operations Launch Programs

Launch Program Manager partnering with product teams to translate roadmaps into coordinated cross-functional launch plans across marketing, comms, and events. Requires strong program management, stakeholder alignment, and experience driving complex high-impact product launches in fast-paced environments.

234k – 445k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOETechnical Program Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product teams to understand requirements, roadmaps, and readiness, then translate those into clear launch plans and timelines.
  • Drive cross-functional planning and execution across marketing, comms, events, and operations to ensure cohesive, high-quality launches.
  • Serve as the central communications hub, driving alignment through clear updates, status reviews, and structured working rhythms.
  • Anticipate and proactively address launch risks, surfacing tradeoffs to leadership early.
  • Build and evolve launch frameworks, operating rhythms, and processes to scale the company’s ability to execute complex launches predictably.
  • Represent the launch program function in senior stakeholder forums, helping shape launch strategy and cross-org coordination.

Requirements

  • Exceptional at building alignment across diverse functions and stakeholders.
  • Can translate product requirements and timelines into structured, coordinated launch plans.
  • Clear communicator who can operate effectively at both tactical and strategic levels.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoy building structure where it doesn’t yet exist.
  • Skilled at navigating complex product organizations and creating clarity across multiple teams.
  • Led complex, high-impact product launches involving multiple functions and senior stakeholders.
  • Highly skilled at working with product and engineering teams to understand and translate nuanced requirements into actionable plans.
  • Strong program management and operational skill set—able to set clear timelines, track dependencies, and drive accountability.
  • Communicate with clarity and confidence at all levels, including executives.
  • Build trust quickly and can rally diverse stakeholders around a shared vision.
  • Calm under pressure, solutions-oriented, and thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments.
  • Enjoy building systems and processes that bring order to ambiguity and scale impact across the organization.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in AI or high-tech product launches.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance to new employees.

Skills

Program ManagementCross-Functional Coordinationstakeholder alignmentProduct LaunchesRisk Managementprocess buildingExecutive Communicationdependency trackinglaunch frameworksProduct Roadmap

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