Technical Student Labs Lead, US & Canada

GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc•San Francisco, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

We’re hiring a full-time contractor to help us refine and scale developer & builder student engagement across the U.S. and Canada, connecting student builders with OpenAI’s developer platform. The north star: make Codex the most loved agentic coding tool for student builders, while building a repeatable loop for high-signal product feedback and shareable student use cases. This is a technical community lead role at the intersection of developer experience and community. You will be the bridge between the CS student and hacker ecosystem and OpenAI. You will engage directly with student developers, help them build real applications with Codex and OpenAI APIs, and translate what they build into product insights and technical stories that inspire other student developers. You’ll work closely with Community, DevEx, product, and education teams to ensure student developers have the best possible experience building with OpenAI.

Requirements

Strong technical background with the ability to build real projects using modern developer tools.
Experience building applications using APIs, developer platforms, or AI models.
Comfortable live-coding, debugging, and demonstrating developer workflows.
Familiarity with GitHub workflows, modern dev stacks, and AI developer tooling.
Experience engaging with developer communities such as hackathons, open source projects, or developer clubs.
Strong communication skills and the ability to turn technical insights into clear examples and demos.
High ownership and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience building projects with LLMs, agents, or AI developer tools.
Experience creating technical content such as tutorials, demos, blog posts, or videos.
Experience organizing developer events, hackathons, or campus programs.
Familiarity with the AI coding tool landscape and how developers evaluate different tools.

Responsibilities

Recruit and run a cohort of high-agency student builders working with Codex and adjacent AI developer tools.
Facilitate weekly show-and-tell style sessions that surface workflows, friction, and product opportunities.
Help students debug projects during sprints and support them in building real applications.
Capture and synthesize developer feedback into actionable insights for product and developer experience teams.
Identify emerging patterns in how students use AI coding and agentic tools, and surface those signals to product and developer experience teams.
Identify where OpenAI should plug into existing student ecosystems such as hackathons, developer clubs, and AI meetups.
Support student leaders in running build days, hackathons, and workshops using OpenAI tools.
Develop a repeatable playbook for recruiting and supporting student developer communities.
Build a pipeline of campus builders and ambassadors who can run Codex-focused programming on their campuses.
Support student leaders in running build days, hackathons, and workshops using OpenAI tools, and help connect standout student builders to relevant OpenAI events or community programs.
Collect and amplify great user content with students —such as tutorials, walkthroughs, and code samples—showing how students are building with OpenAI.
Partner with Developer Social, comms, and Educations teams to surface standout student projects and use cases through blog posts, demos, and social storytelling.
Observe how students are using AI developer tools (including Codex, the Responses API, and other agentic systems) in real workflows.
Synthesize patterns, use cases, and early signals from campus communities into reports and artifacts that can inform Product and Education strategy.
Collaborate with product, DevEx, social, creative, events, and marketing teams to highlight compelling student developer projects.
Translate student projects into stories and technical examples that inspire other developers.