Senior Manager, Occupancy Planning & Workplace Strategy
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 lead strategic space planning for GTM and G&A organizations. You will turn business needs into occupancy strategies, capacity scenarios, and stacking and move plans, maintain space data in CAFM/IWMS platforms, build dashboards, and partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience in occupancy planning, workplace strategy, or space management
- Track record translating growth and headcount projections into space strategies
- Hands-on experience with CAFM/IWMS platforms
- Analytical skills and scenario development
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Clear communication
Responsibilities
- Own strategic occupancy planning for GTM and G&A organizations
- Develop capacity scenarios, seating models, and space allocation recommendations
- Partner with business leaders to align workplace strategies with objectives
- Collaborate with Finance, People, Analytics, Design & Construction, and Workplace Operations
- Create stacking, blocking, and move plans
- Maintain space inventories, floor plans, and utilization data in CAFM/IWMS platforms
- Resolve space data discrepancies and establish quality controls
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools
- Drive continuous improvement in planning processes
- Support workplace change initiatives
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- 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 up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
