Consumer Device Safety and Risk Operations Specialist User Safety and Risk Operations

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

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San Francisco, United States
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About the Role

You will build and operate the safety and risk model for consumer hardware from early requirements through launch. You will define incident workflows, escalation standards, regulated-case controls, tooling requirements, readiness plans, monitoring, and improvements based on operational data and product signals.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in device safety product safety consumer hardware operations technical program management or a related field
  • Experience building a complex safety or risk program from ambiguity through launch and scale
  • Experience handling high-severity incidents regulated workflows sensitive customer information and time-critical escalations
  • Ability to translate product engineering legal privacy and policy constraints into operational workflows
  • Technical fluency with data flows telemetry access controls audit logs case systems automation and failure modes
  • Experience using data to assess workflow health quality and risk
  • Experience supporting consumer hardware connected devices or shared-environment products is preferred
  • Experience with product-safety investigations recalls field failures safety advisories or hazardous-product handling is preferred
  • Experience with privacy-sensitive data workflows warranty repair reverse logistics fraud or ownership disputes is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Build the safety and risk operating model for consumer hardware
  • Define incident taxonomies severity levels escalation criteria and closure standards
  • Develop playbooks for product-safety incidents escalations advisories and corrective actions
  • Design workflows for regulated and privacy-sensitive cases
  • Translate operational needs into tooling case management data access monitoring logging and automation requirements
  • Establish ownership boundaries across partner teams
  • Build launch-readiness plans tabletop exercises training quality controls reporting and monitoring
  • Use operational data customer signals telemetry and case outcomes to improve systems
  • Determine where AI and automation can improve triage and response
  • Stand up priority workflows through launch and transition them to durable operating teams

Benefits

  • Medical dental and vision insurance for employees and families with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental medical and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays paid office closures and paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends