Senior Program Manager, Consumer Device Safety Operations

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 the Role

You will build the safety, quality, and risk operations for a new category of consumer devices. You will turn ambiguous product risks into operating models, workflows, escalation paths, and launch-readiness plans, coordinate across many teams, use data and AI tools to investigate issues, and drive critical escalations to closure. The role may involve exposure to sensitive material.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in program management, product operations, product safety, quality assurance, regulatory operations, incident management, or similar fields
  • Technical and analytical fluency with data flows, telemetry, dashboards, and case systems
  • Track record taking ambiguous work from problem framing through launch and scaled operation
  • Sound judgment in high-severity situations
  • Ability to drive alignment without direct authority
  • Clear communication with technical, legal, and executive audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead operational builds for device-safety and product-quality priorities
  • Define intake, severity criteria, decision rights, escalation paths, and closure criteria
  • Translate cross-functional requirements into workflows, playbooks, and operating standards
  • Build launch-readiness plans, training, quality controls, and monitoring
  • Coordinate across Product, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Legal, Privacy, Policy, Support, and vendors
  • Use operational data, dashboards, and AI tools to investigate issues and improve workflows
  • Drive critical escalations and decisions to closure
  • Create roadmaps, decision logs, risk registers, and operating reviews
  • Identify opportunities for AI and automation
  • Stand up workflows and transition mature capabilities to durable owners

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