Partner AI Deployment Engineer, Global Advisory Alliances

About the role

We are looking for a Partner AI Deployment Engineer (ADE) to own OpenAI’s senior technical engagement with McKinsey, BCG, and Bain globally. This role is the primary technical point of contact for MBB advisory partners on complex enterprise proposals and transformation programmes, ensuring that OpenAI’s platform is positioned, architected, and deployed to support board-level AI agendas.

The role sits at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and execution. You will work directly with MBB partners and principals to translate executive ambition into scalable, production-ready AI programmes built on the OpenAI platform. You will operate across multiple industries and engagements, shaping solution direction, guiding architectural decisions, and orchestrating delivery across OpenAI and partner teams.

This role is based in Munich or Dublin. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

Act as the senior technical lead for McKinsey, BCG, and Bain across priority enterprise pursuits and transformation programmes.

• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to MBB Partners and Principals during proposal development and client engagements.

• Translate board-level AI strategies into executable technical architectures, delivery plans, and platform roadmaps.

• Provide architectural leadership across multiple concurrent programmes, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with OpenAI standards.

• Orchestrate ADEs and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) across MBB-led engagements, engaging the right expertise at each phase.

• Guide partners and customers through critical decisions on platform design, scalability, governance, safety, and reliability.

• Support the development of repeatable industry solutions and transformation patterns built on the OpenAI platform.

• Act as a technical escalation point during complex or high-risk phases of delivery to reduce execution risk.

• Represent MBB partners internally, synthesising insights from large-scale programmes into actionable input for Product and Research teams.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Have held a highly technical role at McKinsey, BCG, or Bain (e.g., Partner, Principal, Senior Expert, or equivalent) - preferred.

• Have 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, AI/ML platforms, solution delivery, or technology strategy.

• Bring a strong combination of deep technical expertise and commercial or advisory experience.

• Have led or supported large-scale enterprise transformation programmes alongside senior client executives.

• Possess industry expertise in at least one of the following: Financial Services; Pharma & Life Sciences; Healthcare; Retail.

• Are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and balancing strategic intent with delivery constraints.

• Can engage credibly in boardrooms, executive workshops, and deep technical design sessions.

• Take ownership of outcomes and are comfortable leading without direct line authority.

• Bring a collaborative mindset and enjoy working across advisory partners, product teams, and GTM organisations.

About OpenAI

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on t