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Launch Systems Architect
Company | OpenAI |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $240000 – $240000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years experience in product launch coordination, especially within a customer support environment (internal and/or external)
- Experience in shipping or maintaining tools and automations (dashboards, ETL pipelines, low-code apps) that eliminated manual work and scaled beyond a single team
- Familiarity with ChatGPT & LLMs as co-developers, rapidly turning natural-language ideas into working code or queries
- Background in data science or data architecture—familiar with designing schemas, validating data quality, and applying statistical methods to turn raw signals into actionable insights
- Skilled at building relationships with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
- Passionate about customer advocacy and experience translating customer feedback into strategic product insights
- Strong bias for automation and ability to defend governance decisions that keep data and processes healthy as they grow
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift quickly
Responsibilities
- Coordinate product launches across internal User Operations teams and external partners to guarantee seamless execution and support readiness
- Architect launch-readiness systems that streamline formerly manual processes, replacing ad-hoc docs and meetings with automated workflows, dashboards, and alerting to build for scale
- Develop and implement scalable feedback loops between support, product, and engineering so customer insights are continuously integrated into product strategy
- Serve as the voice of the user, advocating for customer needs and pain points in cross-functional discussions
- Prototype quickly—leveraging ChatGPT, Jupyter notebooks, Retool, and other tools—to prove value before hardening with Engineering
- Stand up data pipelines that capture sentiment, ticket trends, and BPO insights, routing actionable signals back to Product within hours—not weeks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, and Operations to align on launch goals, timelines, and readiness metrics
- Identify risks and challenges during rollouts, proposing solutions that safeguard customer experience and service levels
- Continuously automate, replacing every repetitive touchpoint with scripts, agents, or LLM-powered flows
Preferred Qualifications
- Enjoy working cross-functionally
- Skilled at building relationships with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
- Passionate about customer advocacy and have experience translating customer feedback into strategic product insights