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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Support Operations Manager - **Company:** OpenAI Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $279,000.0 - $310,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Operational Data Store, Large Language Models - **Published:** July 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17605784?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17605784%2FSupport-Operations-Manager-California-San-Francisco ## About the Role * Have 8+ years of experience leading support operations teams and a strong track record of coaching, driving accountability, and improving performance and automation adoption at scale * Are comfortable managing a team while staying hands-on in solving ambiguous operational problems. * Are fluent in operational data and technical collaboration, able to define metrics, interpret dashboards, design experiments, and partner with engineering and data teams to turn ambiguous support problems into scalable systems. * Think in systems, using process design, data, tooling, and automation to reduce manual work and create durable capacity. * Can partner credibly with technical teams and translate support needs into clear requirements, owning problem definition, adoption, change management, and operational outcomes * Are energized by building structure in a high-growth environment where the support model, tooling, and partner strategy are still evolving. * Have scaled support operations through organizational design and tooling in a high-growth technology company without compromising quality. ## Description The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from individual customers to early-stage startups and established global enterprises. Given OpenAI's breakneck shipping cadence and growth - and the expectation that it will only accelerate - our ability to architect automation systems and agentic workflows for scale is central to our ability to maintain exceptional support quality in the face of AGI., We are seeking a Support Operations Manager who combines operational leadership, systems thinking, vendor management, and hands-on execution. You'll own service health, automation programs, partner and vendor management. In addition to delivering high-quality service, you'll identify opportunities to reduce manual work, experiment with tools and help operationalize AI across support at scale. This is not a traditional support operations manager role. We're looking for someone to help us define the future of support, who thrive at the intersection of team/project management, systems building, data science/engineering, and with deep craft experience in the support operations space. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. 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