Manager, Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Singapore
Openai·Singapore·Remote·Posted 11 November 2026
About the role
About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role As a Manager of our Deployment Leads in APAC, you’ll lead and grow a team of DLs through high-stakes customer deployments, owning technical and business outcomes end to end. You’ll help build the function as you lead it, navigating significant ambiguity to define its scope and ways of working. You’ll partner with FDE, Product, Research, and GTM to balance customer-specific solutions with reusable capabilities and ensure field insights inform product priorities. Drawing on your experience leading complex technical deployments and products, you’ll guide decisions on scope, feasibility, sequencing, and delivery readiness, helping your team make sound tradeoffs and build lasting customer trust. Success will be measured by the impact of your team’s deployments, the growth of your DLs, and how effectively the team and delivery model scale. This role is based in Singapore. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and…
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