AI Safety & Safeguards - Technical Program Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive complex product, platform, and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, enterprise, and deployment environments. You will translate safety and product priorities into executable plans, influence architecture decisions, and deliver durable capabilities across model, infrastructure, and platform layers.

The role requires strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams with urgency, rigor,

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, machine learning, or safety domains.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers on system design, tradeoffs, reliability, deployment constraints, and risks.
• Experience with sensitive deployments or major cloud providers and safety-focused initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, engineering, research, and design to shape technical roadmaps and safeguards priorities across ChatGPT, API, enterprise, and cloud environments.
• Lead cross-functional programs end to end—from problem definition and design through implementation, launch, iteration, and operational follow-through.
• Own milestones, dependencies, risk mitigation, decision-making, and accountability across multiple teams.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Cross-functional leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud deployments

Safety & governance

Executive communication

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive complex product, platform, and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, enterprise, and deployment environments. You will translate safety and product priorities into executable plans, influence architecture decisions, and deliver durable capabilities across model, infrastructure, and platform layers.

The role requires strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams with urgency, rigor,