OpenAI
Strategic Delivery Lead, Federal Civilian & State and Local Government
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
ABOUT THE TEAM
The OpenAI for Government team brings frontier AI to public institutions to help them achieve their missions. We partner with government leaders, mission owners, and technical teams to deploy AI tools responsibly, with the reliability, security, and support needed for meaningful use.
Our Federal Civilian and State & Local Government business supports public institutions across a broad range of missions. We help these customers apply frontier AI to public services, knowledge work, research, and mission operations through hands-on delivery, tailored enablement, and collaboration with their teams.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL), Federal Civilian & State and Local Government, will shape and deliver high-impact AI engagements across federal civilian agencies and state and local governments. You will turn customer priorities into practical deployments and sustained use, helping government leaders and mission teams apply OpenAI technology to public services, knowledge discovery, and operational workflows.
This individual contributor role reports to the leader of Federal Civilian and State & Local Government. You will work alongside Account Directors and Applied AI Architects across assigned engagements, coordinating Research, Product, Engineering, Policy, Security, and Enablement resources. Account Directors own commercial strategy, contracts, and quota; you own delivery coordination, adoption, and customer outcomes, without an individual sales quota.
You will lead execution across customer and OpenAI workstreams: define scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and success measures; surface risks; resolve blockers; and communicate progress to agency executives, program leaders, and working teams. You are accountable for agreed delivery commitments and customer acceptance. Engineering and Product teams remain responsible for technical implementation and operation of the systems they own.