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Director, Certifications

Job Overview

Location

Remote - US

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Product Management

Date Posted

May 21, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • Own and lead OpenAI’s certification initiative as a company-wide strategic program spanning Product, Customer Education, GTM, and Partnerships.
  • • Define the architecture, roadmap, and operating model for OpenAI’s certification system, ensuring alignment with rapidly evolving AI product capabilities.
  • • Develop frameworks to measure practical AI proficiency using real-world workflows and product usage, rather than theoretical knowledge.
  • • Translate complex product functionalities into structured, credible certification pathways that reflect actual user capabilities.
  • • Partner directly with product teams to integrate certification systems with OpenAI’s platform, learning tools, and evaluation infrastructure.
  • • Influence product development to support features that enable learning, skill assessment, and competency validation for users.
  • • Design a scalable certification architecture capable of serving millions of learners globally while maintaining rigorous standards and signal value.
  • • Ensure certification pathways are deeply integrated with OpenAI’s broader learning programs, educational initiatives, and workforce readiness goals.
  • • Drive alignment across Product, GTM, Customer Education, and Partnerships to unify strategy, execution, and messaging around certification programs.
  • • Build shared understanding across teams on how certifications reinforce enterprise adoption of OpenAI’s technologies and support workforce transformation.
  • • Establish systems and governance models to maintain credibility, consistency, and integrity as the certification program scales across regions and user segments.
  • • Work closely with leaders across the organization to ensure certifications accurately represent real product capabilities and drive measurable outcomes.
  • • Shape the long-term trajectory of OpenAI’s certification program as a foundational element in how AI skills are recognized and validated globally.
  • • Ensure certification systems evolve in tandem with product updates, new model releases, and emerging use cases across developer and enterprise audiences.
  • • Maintain focus on delivering high-signal credentials that organizations trust to evaluate AI competency in hiring, training, and deployment contexts.
  • • Operate autonomously in ambiguous environments, defining new programs where no prior operating model exists.
  • • Influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority to advance certification strategy and execution.
  • • Champion the role of certification in democratizing access to AI skills and supporting equitable workforce development in an AI-driven economy.

🎯 Requirements

  • • Led large, cross-functional strategic initiatives involving product, education, and go-to-market teams
  • • Comfortable defining new programs where the operating model does not yet exist
  • • Can influence multiple teams and senior leaders without direct authority
  • • Experience building for developer or technical audiences
  • • Experience leading large-scale learning or credential systems
  • • Experience working closely with product teams on customer-facing tools

🏖️ Benefits

  • • Compensation range of $239.4K - $335K USD
  • • Remote work opportunity within the US
  • • Access to OpenAI’s mission-driven culture focused on safe, equitable, and beneficial AI deployment
  • • Participation in OpenAI’s equal opportunity employment practices and inclusive workplace policies

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OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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