Program Manager, Safety

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About the Team

The Safety Systems team works to ensure OpenAI's most capable models can be developed and deployed responsibly. Our work spans evaluations, safeguards, red teaming, deployment decisions, and the systems that help OpenAI understand and reduce risk as models become more capable and widely used. Safety Systems is in need of a Safety Program Manager to streamline our safety review process. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models and products, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders — across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy — and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated, or resolved.

About the Role

As a Safety Program Manager, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety reviews and risk tables as part of OpenAI’s launch processes to acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of our safety systems. This role is incredibly cross functional, working with stakeholders across our research, engineering, integrity, product, and strategy teams to ensure our launches have been thoroughly reviewed for safety risks.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-functional safety launch readiness across model and product releases, ensuring risk tables, mitigations, monitoring plans, and decision points are clearly tracked from early scoping through post-launch review.
• Build operating rhythms across Safety Systems, Integrity, Strategy, User Operations, and engineering teams so safety learnings from past launches translate into concrete improvements to automated safeguards, tooling, and review processes.
• Design and run key internal programs, including incident management and processes for regularly updating our safety mitigations.
• Work directly with technical stakeholders to create scalable, repeatable safety processes.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in computer science, engineering, management or equivalent experience.
• Extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex projects against tight deadlines.
• Technically versed, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
• Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
• Relentlessly resourceful and able to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Care about AGI safety.

Compensation Range

$162K - $240K USD

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 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, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

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. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.