Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

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
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 streamline safety governance and integrate safety research and mitigations into ChatGPT, the API, and frontier models. You will track safety research progress and risk tables, oversee human data campaign quality, manage pre-launch safety reviews, and create a compute roadmap for your team. You will also document safety work and help publish safety learnings, standards, datasets and benchmarks. The role is hybrid in San Francisco, 3 days per week in the office.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in a hard science (PhD advantageous) or demonstrated engineering expertise
  • Track record of delivering high-profile complex technical projects against tight deadlines
  • Technically adept with experience partnering with engineering and research teams
  • Expertise designing simple scalable processes
  • Knowledge of content integrity and moderation, industry best practices and regulatory guidelines
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Care about AGI safety

Responsibilities

  • Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders
  • Track existing and future mitigations for every major product and model deployment
  • Standardize the lifecycle of risk assessment, set safety bars and consolidate stakeholder inputs
  • Manage pre-launch safety reviews
  • Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with key partners such as Microsoft
  • Develop documentation for safety work including metrics, evaluations and progress tracking
  • Help publish and open source safety learnings, standards, datasets and benchmarks
  • Create and execute a compute roadmap for your team

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
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