GRC Program Manager, Audit & Controls

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a technical, product-minded GRC builder to own consequential audits and strengthen the control and evidence systems that support them.

You will create a reusable common control framework, leverage Codex to automate assurance tasks, and validate system scope and ownership. The role emphasizes questioning assumptions, solving novel problems with engineers, and reducing audit friction through better underlying systems.

Qualifications

• Lead external, internal, customer, and certification audits from scoping to closeout.
• Build a common control framework linking risk, control intent, implementation, owner, system, environment, evidence, and frameworks.
• Validate scope and ownership instead of assuming last year's controls or evidence.
• Use Codex to build and test evidence checks, control mappings, and remediation reporting.
• Partner with engineers on cloud architecture, identity, logging, data flows, and vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead audit work end-to-end across multiple stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a reusable control framework for assurance.
• Improve evidence collection and owner workflows to reduce frictions.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure control effectiveness.

Skills

Audit leadership

GRC framework design

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation with Codex

Tools

Codex

Cloud architecture

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI's Governance, Risk, and Compliance team helps ensure security and privacy are grounded in how our products and systems actually operate. Assurance Operations partners with Security, Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Privacy, and Legal to make controls provable, risk decisions explicit, and audit readiness a result of well-designed systems.

About the Role

We are hiring a technical, product-minded GRC builder who can own consequential audits while improving the control and evidence systems behind them. You will build a reusable common control framework, use Codex to automate assurance work, validate changing system scope, and turn repeated audit friction into measurable improvements. We are looking for someone who questions inherited assumptions, solves novel problems creatively, works closely with engineers, and makes the next audit easier by improving the underlying system.

You’ll be responsible for:

Lead external, internal, customer, and certification audit work from scoping through evidence review, fieldwork, remediation, and closeout. Build a common control framework linking risk, control intent, implementation, owner, system, environment, evidence, and applicable frameworks. Validate actual scope and ownership instead of assuming last year's controls, product boundaries, or evidence remain accurate. Use Codex to build and test evidence checks, control mappings, request triage, owner workflows, monitoring, and remediation reporting. Partner with engineers on cloud architecture, identity, logging, data flows, software changes, vulnerabilities, and control effectiveness. Design maintainable, permission-aware tools that preserve source provenance, human review, and evidence integrity. Reduce repeated requests and operational burden for control owners through measurable workflow improvements. Define roadmaps, decision rights, milestones, success metrics, and clear cross-functional escalations. We're looking for someone with: Direct ownership.