Product Lead - Internal Products

The OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo) is seeking a Product Lead to shape and build the internal platform that DeployCo runs on, covering staffing and resourcing, financial operations and reporting, recruiting workflows, and sales and pipeline management. The role owns product vision, strategy, and roadmap from discovery through launch and ongoing improvement, and partners with engineers and leaders across Delivery, Finance, People, Sales, and Operations.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision and roadmap for DeployCo's internal platform, balancing immediate operational needs with the capabilities the business will need as it scales; Embed with internal teams to understand how work gets done and redesign workflows around AI and automation, reducing manual effort, simplifying handoffs, and translating opportunities into clear product priorities; Build connected experiences across people, resourcing, finance, recruiting, and sales, accounting for how information and decisions move between teams; Partner closely with engineers and designers to ship high-quality products, making pragmatic tradeoffs on scope, sequencing, usability, and reliability; Shape the platform's data and reporting capabilities so teams and leadership can trust the information behind operational decisions, financial reviews, and board reporting; Shape platform security and access controls so employees and external partners can access only the information and capabilities appropriate to their roles; Own adoption and continuous improvement, using direct feedback and measures such as time saved, workflow completion, data accuracy, and usage to guide investment

Requirements

Have a track record of building excellent products that deliver meaningful value to users, including hands-on experience building AI-powered or agentic applications; Can set a compelling long-term direction while staying close to execution, moving comfortably between company priorities, user needs, and the details of a product experience; Bring strong user empathy and a high bar for product craft, investing time in understanding how people work and making complex workflows feel simple and intuitive; Are hands-on: comfortable working in Figma, SQL, and Git, and using tools like Codex to prototype ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate development in close partnership with engineers; Are technically fluent enough to work through data models, integrations, permissions, and system tradeoffs with engineers, and comfortable using data to investigate problems and measure results; Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, make compelling cases for what to build and why, and build alignment around priorities and tradeoffs; Operate well in ambiguity, take initiative, and bring the structure and follow-through needed to turn a broad mandate into shipped products that teams adopt and rely on