Founding Program Officer, AI Resources & Partnerships

OpenAI Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI Foundation in San Francisco, CA, is hiring two founding Program Officers for AI Resources. You will report to Lennart Heim, Director of AI Resources, and help build a portfolio that combines operations, grantmaking, research, strategy, and partnerships.

This role focuses on rethinking AI resilience and scaling resources across biosecurity, model safety, cybersecurity, and collaboration with OpenAI PBC, aiming to enable responsible, impactful AI progress.

Responsibilities

• Do research on what the AI resources portfolio should look like and which actions to take now (think through compute crunches, counterparty risks, and market scenarios) and help shape the team's strategy.
• Help figure out how to scale AI resources to grantees, within the Foundation itself, and for the future of philanthropy across biosecurity, safety, cybersecurity, and more.
• Conduct research that informs program strategy: where returns to AI resources are highest, where diminishing returns set in, what grantees actually demand, and whether providing AI resources directly creates more value than cash.
• Support grantmaking end to end (sourcing, diligence, and getting resources into grantees' hands) including grant investigations.
• Help identify the projects and organizations that should exist in this space, and support finding or developing the people to build them.
• Work closely with the broader AI Resilience team on the wider set of issues across biosecurity, cybersecurity, model safety, and more, and find where AI Resources can support.

Job description

OpenAI Foundation in San Francisco, CA, is hiring two founding Program Officers for AI Resources. You will report to Lennart Heim, Director of AI Resources, and help build a portfolio that combines operations, grantmaking, research, strategy, and partnerships.

This role focuses on rethinking AI resilience and scaling resources across biosecurity, model safety, cybersecurity, and collaboration with OpenAI PBC, aiming to enable responsible, impactful AI progress.