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.
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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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Candidate Availability
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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
