Head of Enterprise Risk Management
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will build and lead an integrated ERM program and the platform that supports it. You will own enterprise risk assessments, maintain the risk register, define risk appetite and key risk indicators, enable risk-informed change governance, and apply automation and AI to monitoring and analysis. This is a senior individual contributor role with potential to build a team. Hybrid, 3 days a week in San Francisco.
Requirements
- 12+ years in enterprise or operational risk, compliance, internal audit, security governance or finance
- Experience leading ERM or GRC programs
- Track record building or scaling an enterprise risk program
- Command of ERM practices and frameworks such as COSO or ISO/IEC 27001
- Experience advising executives
- Technical fluency with GRC platforms, data architecture, APIs and cloud
- Experience using data analytics, automation or AI tools
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the ERM framework
- Lead enterprise risk assessments and maintain a centralized risk register
- Establish key risk indicators, continuous monitoring and executive dashboards
- Enable risk-informed change governance
- Lead governance forums and report to senior leadership and the Board
- Define strategy and roadmap for the ERM platform
- Apply automation, policy-as-code, analytics and AI to risk workflows
- Coordinate risk activities across functions and the three lines of defense
- Build, coach and lead a team
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
- Relocation support
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
