Workplace
On-site
Employment
Full-Time
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
ABOUT THE TEAM The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. Within Education, we partner with universities, schools, research institutions, and countrywide education systems to advance responsible, mission-aligned uses of AI. These environments require more than technical deployment: success depends on institutional trust, thoughtful governance, stakeholder education, change management, and a value narrative that resonates with academic leaders, researchers, IT teams, faculty, administrators, and students. ABOUT THE ROLE As an Applied AI Architect for Education, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of education customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business,” shaping each institution’s AI strategy and guiding its journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable institutional impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Edu, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate institutional priorities into a focused portfolio of use cases, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable value and growth. The Account Director owns the commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will work across academic, research, administrative, and operational contexts—helping cus
Requirements
Department: Applied AI; Team: Applied AI