Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
AI @ 6
Data Science @ 3
Product Management @ 6
Statistics @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About the Team
Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI’s frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives—from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming—all aimed at mitigating misuse and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency.
Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI’s benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations.
About the Role
The Safety Measurement Product Manager owns OpenAI's approach to measuring harm and safeguard efficacy in production, including driving the strategy for our suite of safety measurement platforms and products used across the company. You will partner closely with our safety research and engineering teams to determine what we measure, where we measure it, and how we measure it, feeding those insights directly into critical leadership decisions and back into our safety work. You will also represent the company's topline safety metric as well as prioritize incoming requests from partner teams to expand our safety measurement platform to more use cases.
This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with data science, research, engineering, policy teams, and other stakeholders to craft a vision for understanding safety outcomes and prevalence on our platforms.
- Define strategic priorities and product roadmaps focused on improving safety measurement approaches will scaling our measurement platform to more use cases, products, and cross-functional team needs.
- Establish repeatable processes to integrate cutting-edge AI safety research into OpenAI’s safety measurement products.
- Develop and continuously refine clear, actionable success criteria that effectively capture our ambitions with safety measurement.
- Represent quantitative progress on safety to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Have 6+ years of product management or related industry roles, with specific expertise in AI safety, trust & safety, integrity, or related domains.
- Have a background in data science, statistics, economics, or related fields.
- Are deeply curious and interested in interdisciplinary fields such as human-computer interaction, psychology, philosophy, or similar areas.
- Have hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces.
- Excel at identifying and challenging underlying assumptions and constraints through insightful questioning.
- Are highly effective at cross-functional collaboration and communicating complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.