# Strategy & Operations Launch Programs

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $234k – $445k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, stakeholder alignment, Product Launches, Risk Management, process building, Executive Communication, dependency tracking, launch frameworks, Product Roadmap
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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