Program Manager, Safety

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.

In this role, you will

• 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.

You might thrive in this role if you

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

Compensation Range: $162K - $240K USD