Strategic Delivery Lead, International Public Sector

About the team

The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how public institutions achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure compliant AI tools and mission-aligned deployments that meet government technical policy security and sovereignty requirements with strong reliability and safety.

As part of the OpenAI for Government team you will work with public sector institutions globally outside the United States to accelerate responsible adoption of frontier AI. If you are passionate about helping governments serve their communities more effectively we want you on our team.

About the Role

The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for International Public Sector will lead some of OpenAIs most complex and high-impact deployments with public sector customers outside the United States. You will work with senior government multilateral and partner stakeholders to turn hard institutional and mission problems into practical deployments on the OpenAI Platform API and ChatGPT Enterprise. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: you will partner with Research Engineering Go-to-Market Global Affairs Legal Security and external stakeholders to align scope unblock delivery and communicate progress at every level from technical teams to C-suite.

You will own and drive delivery workstreams led by specialist internal technical and engineering teams ensuring clear problem-framing milestones risk management issue resolution and translation between public-sector objectives and technical solutions. As a trusted generalist with strong technical fluency you will move between strategy technical scoping and discovery delivery planning adoption governance relationship management and issue resolution without supervision.

This is a high-trust high-autonomy role. Accountability for contractual milestones and acceptance criteria sits with you. Success requires excellent judgement adaptable programme leadership and management executive presence and the ability to turn broad leadership guidance into practical action while escalating when needed.

In this role you will:

• Forge partnerships with public sector leaders and AI users globally in line with strategic priorities to deliver the most impactful AI and AGI use cases.

• Serve as the accountable lead for international public sector engagements tied to clear outcomes customer milestones adoption metrics and commercial commitments.

• Translate between technical teams and business policy security and operational stakeholders clearly communicating progress risks requirements and dependencies.

• Work with government departments strategic partners multilateral institutions operational delivery partners and policy/security stakeholders to translate responsible AI use cases into actionable delivery plans.

• Partner with technical teams to scope projects guide technical direction anticipate blockers and align teams.

• Operate as a generalist across opportunity development pilot shaping delivery governance adoption and risk management as the team scales.

• Exercise judgement and initiative under ambiguity staying aligned with leadership priorities without day-to-day direction.

• Establish best practices around milestone tracking internal coordination customer governance and delivery operations at scale.

• Lead regular progress reviews with international public sector stakeholders ensuring transparency and confidence in delivery.

• Identify delivery policy security procurement data and stakeholder risks early and work cross-functionally to mitigate blockers and maintain programme velocity.

• Navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements with composure helping internal and external teams stay aligned.

• Help shape the future of how OpenAI engages with international public sector customers through reusable delivery practices responsible deployment patterns and milestone-based programmes.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10 years in public sector consulting delivery leadership transformation enterprise technology or senior programme management.

• Are based in the UK or EU or otherwise able to support public sector customers globally outside the United States and are willing to travel up to 50% to work on-site with customers and partners.

• For UK-based candidates hold or be eligible for UK SC/DV or comparable clearance; EU-based candidates should have regulated public sector experience.

• Have experience leading organisational transformation initiatives (AI digital technology or business transformation) directly with government public sector or highly regulated institutions.

• Have led complex programmes in enterprise SaaS AI/ML consulting systems integration gov tech or transformation environments.

• Have a proven track record influencing and shaping customer decision-making at executive policy operational and technical levels and the ability to drive clarity accountability and alignment across senior stakeholders.

• Are adept at translating public sector mission outcomes into technical execution plans with defined success metrics.

• Demonstrate judgement and initiative in ambiguous environments taking advantage of opportunities in line with leadership guidance without requiring constant oversight.

• Have a strong track record of execution in delivering ambitious goals on complex cross-functional projects.

• Have prior experience managing large-scale AI/ML data platform or enterprise API-based deployments.

• Are passionate about how AI and AGI can enhance public sector institutions and improve public-service outcomes responsibly.

• Get energy from building partnerships across a varied group of people and organisations from researchers and engineers to policy leaders procurement teams delivery partners and senior government officials.

• See yourself as a bridge between frontier AI research and real-world public-sector impact and are motivated by enabling that connection.

• Care about public mission impact and want to help public sector customers globally use AI responsibly and effectively.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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