IT Support Singapore, APAC Regional Lead

About the Team

The IT Services and Support team is responsible for delivering seamless, efficient, and reliable workplace technology across the organization. We provide frontline IT support, run employee lifecycle operations, support conference rooms and events, manage vendors and assets, and continuously improve systems, documentation, and workflows to strengthen the employee experience as OpenAI grows.

About the Role

As the APAC Regional IT Support Lead based in Singapore, you will be the senior onsite IT owner for the Singapore office while serving as the regional lead for IT support across APAC. You will combine high-quality hands-on support with regional coordination, operational leadership, and process improvement. Your scope includes frontline support, onboarding and offboarding, AV and event readiness, vendor and equipment management, office build and workplace technology support, executive support, and the design of scalable support workflows across offices and time zones.

We are looking for someone who is customer-focused, technically strong, and able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment. You should bring strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to turn ambiguous operational needs into reliable systems that improve the employee experience.

This role is the onsite IT lead in our Singapore office, serves as the regional lead for APAC IT support, requires 5 days in office per week, and offers relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

- Act as IT Support: Serve as the senior-most onsite point of contact in Singapore for troubleshooting hardware, software, network, and collaboration issues, ensuring prompt and reliable resolution of employee requests.

- Lead APAC Regional Support: Partner across offices and time zones to improve coordination, strengthen support coverage, and drive a more consistent employee experience across APAC.

- Own Employee Lifecycle Operations: Lead or support onboarding and offboarding workflows including device preparation, account readiness, access coordination, and day-one support.

- Drive AV and Event Readiness: Support conference rooms, executive meetings, events, and other high-visibility gatherings, ensuring workplace technology and AV systems are reliable.

- Manage Vendors and Equipment: Coordinate procurement, repairs, maintenance, inventory tracking, and device management practices to maintain secure, standardized, and scalable operations.

- Partner on Office Build and Workplace Technology: Work closely with Workplace Services, Security, and other stakeholders to support office growth, changes, and workplace technology readiness in Singapore.

- Improve Support Systems and Processes: Identify friction, improve documentation, build repeatable workflows, and introduce lightweight automation and scalable operational improvements across support, inventory, onboarding, and related IT processes.

- Provide Executive and White-Glove Support: De