AI Success Engineer | DACH

OpenAI's AI Success Engineer team partners with the world's most ambitious organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real business value. We guide customers from first deployment through scaled enterprise adoption. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, and sustained program and product delivery.

Our customers range from fast growing digital natives to the largest global enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI changes work, productivity, and innovation. This role sits at the center of that mission.

About the Role

The Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales point of contact for a set of OpenAI's most important customers. You are responsible for driving account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, identifying new use cases, and delivering measurable value to our customers with OpenAI's platform.

This role blends technical leadership, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. You will partner deeply with customer teams, map workflows, lead configuration and enablement, oversee deployment plans, and guide customers toward high impact use cases that showcase the full value of our platform.

You will work closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research to ensure the customer experience is connected and successful across every touchpoint. Success in this role means accelerating adoption, increasing customer activation depth, guiding strategic use cases that get to production, and helping customers demonstrate tangible business impact.

This role is based in our Munich office. We use a hybrid work model (3 days/week in the office) and offer relocation assistance for new employees.

In this role, you will: Lead the technical relationship for post-sale customers and act as their trusted advisor on deployment, adoption, and value realization

Own account health, adoption velocity, and ongoing technical deployment and success across your portfolio

Conduct technical enablement and configuration sessions across our broad product portfolio

Identify and validate use cases by embedding with customer teams to understand workflows and pain points

Lead account level coordination across multiple workstreams, including new product activation, change management, and customer rollout and deployment planning

Build strong relationships with executive sponsors and technical stakeholders and help align business goals with OpenAI capabilities

Translate customer objectives into an actionable adoption roadmap with clear sequencing, milestones, and KPIs

Partner with Solutions Architecture, Product, Engineering and Research by surfacing customer feedback, field patterns, and technical blockers and act as a cross functional navigator who keeps teams aligned, informed, and moving toward customer outcomes

Guide value realization and measure impact through baselines, KPI definition, and post deployment reporting

Facilitate workshops on use case design, adoption best practices, champion building, and internal enablement

Help drive expansions by identifying high leverage opportunities where OpenAI's platform can power new workflows or lines of business

Serve as the technical advisor for existing customer implementations by guiding and optimizing account setup, configuration, etc.

Do you have experience in SDKs?, 8+ years of experience in technical customer facing roles such as technical account management, technical GenAI consulting or deployment roles, solutions architecture, technical delivery leadership, or deep technical enterprise adoption work

Deep, hands-on knowledge of OpenAI product capabilities, APIs, SDKs, connectors, and common integration patterns and able to explain model behavior, limitations, technical tradeoffs, embeddings, retrieval augmentation, and approaches to fine-tuning or custom model usage.

Can translate technical concepts into clear business language and help customers understand the strategic impact of AI technologies

Are comfortable embedding with customers to map workflows, identify requirements, and diagnose adoption challenges

Have excellent project and program management instincts and can lead multi workstream initiatives with clarity and structure

Enjoy being a thought partner for C level stakeholders while also diving deep with technical teams

Operate with high ownership and can manage fast decision making, context switching, and dynamic customer needs

Have a strong record of driving technical deployments with hands-on on customer work and owning impactful adoption and value for large enterprise customers with complex environments and multiple stakeholders

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., At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.