Certification Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Certification Architect (senior, hands-on)

• Team focus: Customer Education—credentials and assessments for AI skills

Description

As a Certification Architect, you define the credential framework, standards, and assessment architecture that make OpenAI certifications a trusted signal of demonstrated capability. You’ll build reusable foundations for a growing certification portfolio, including competency standards, defensible assessments, scalable delivery, and evidence of continued competence. You will help shape how people demonstrate practical AI competence in ChatGPT and Codex.

Role Responsibilities

• Own the credential framework and shared competency standards, clarifying completed learning vs. demonstrated skills vs. formal certification, including capability claims and evidence requirements.

• Establish reusable assessment standards across job-task analysis, competency models, assessment blueprints, performance tasks, scoring rubrics, and passing standards.

• Own validation approach and evidence documentation requirements; validate proposals for job relevance, representative task coverage, scoring consistency, fairness, and interpretation.

• Define exam delivery architecture and requirements, including registration, identity verification, monitoring, permitted assistance, evidence capture, scoring, human review, appeals, customer support, and record management.

• Define expectations for continued competence validation after assessment.

• Partner with learning, operations, policy, legal, privacy, security, and accessibility teams to align preparation with competencies while protecting assessment integrity and establishing evidence access, retention, accommodations, and review processes.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience designing and delivering professional technical IT industry certifications or assessments.

• Experience leading design of performance-based assessments for AI, software development, technical architecture, or customer-facing implementation roles.

• Experience building credential frameworks, competency models, or shared assessment standards that work across multiple roles/programs.

• Experience leading job-task analysis, assessment blueprints, performance-based assessment, rubric design, standard setting, and evidence needed for valid and fair decisions.

• Ability to translate assessment experience into exam delivery specifications for third parties and learning product teams.

• Experience working with psychometricians and subject matter experts to validate assessment and scoring standards.

• Ability to communicate complex standards clearly to technical and nontechnical partners and drive alignment without formal authority.

• Enjoy hands-on work: drafting standards, reviewing assessment designs, and resolving practical delivery tradeoffs.

• Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing rigor, candidate experience, feasibility, and the pace of technology change.

• Commitment to accessibility, fairness, and credential integrity.

Benefits

• Hybrid work model (3 days in office per week) and relocation assistance to new employees.