GRC Program Manager, Product Lifecycle Assurance

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI seeks a Product Lifecycle Assurance IC to scale our GRC function across the product stack, ensuring compliance at launch and continuous post-launch monitoring. You will partner with Product, Security, Legal, and Privacy to maintain trust for customers and regulators while enabling rapid delivery.

You will build controls in our infra stack, guide launch tooling, and provide guardrails for developers, applying sound judgment on high-stakes launch decisions to uphold OpenAI's compliance bar.

Qualifications

• Strong technical product lifecycle assurance experience in fast-paced dev environments.
• Experience building and measuring security/privacy controls and dashboards.
• Ability to run end-to-end product assurance programs across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end product assurance from development to post-launch.
• Govern safety, deployment, security reviews to surface risks and design mitigations.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration and accountability for the assurance program.
• Build scalable controls and processes within the infrastructure and developer workflows.

Skills

Product lifecycle

Security compliance

Cross-functional leadership

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Data maps

Risk governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Team

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is foundational to Security delivering mission outcomes at OpenAI. The GRC team provides security assurances and builds compliance for OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but operational in how we do our work, and we partner deeply with Product, Security, Legal, Privacy, GTM, and Field Security to help OpenAI move quickly while maintaining trust with customers, auditors, regulators, and the public.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Product Lifecycle Assurance IC to help scale OpenAI’s GRC function across our product stack to ensure products address customer and regulatory compliance requirements at launch and regressions are detected promptly and corrected.

You will partner closely with Product, Security, Legal, and Privacy teams to make sure OpenAI can move quickly while maintaining our security, privacy and compliance claims and giving customers, auditors, and regulators assurance about how OpenAI handles user data. You are responsible for product assurance end-to-end from inception to post-launch (continuous) monitoring. You leverage existing workflows, reviews, and data and enhance, augment and build the components needed to create an end-to-end product assurance program.

This role is not about supporting SOC or ISO audits; it's a highly cross-functional and deeply technical operations role to ensure that OAI products meet the compliance bar at launch, regressions are prevented and detected, and our compliance state can be evidenced. This role also helps ensure that our product launch governance program operates effectively across key safety, privacy, legal and security stakeholders and lessons-learned from incidents and regressions are used to improve the program.

You or in partnership with engineering teams, build key controls in our infrastructure stack, developer workflows and launch tooling to provide developers with guardrails, perform CI/CD conformance checks, and surface launches that need GRC guidance. You ensure that teams have the information needed to design and launch safety and meet them where they are. You exercise sound judgement in making high-stakes decisions related to product launch risk and controls.

You are comfortable working in high velocity, low friction development environments. Your work goes across team boundaries and you assist and enable other teams to realize product assurance objectives. You should be comfortable with complex (Kubernetes) system architectures and dataflows, working with engineering teams to understand what could go wrong and where and how controls should be applied. You should be comfortable working with Privacy engineering and Data Science to understand data maps and database schemas and leverage existing processes and controls to further product assurance goals.

We’re looking for people who bring:

• Strong technical product lifecycle assurance and security and privacy compliance experience working in high velocity, low friction development environments.

• Experience building technical controls, metrics, monitoring tools, CI/CD tooling, high-fidelity risk signals and dashboards to meet product assurance goals

• Ability to run an end-to-end, cross-functional, product assurance program applying judgement where what type of process or controls should be in place to meet a high assurance bar

• Capacity to shift product assurance to the left in the product development cycle with just-in-time controls, guidance, guardrails and responsible friction for developers

• Low ego outcome oriented mindset to achieve the product assurance goal required for OAI’s mission

• Strong technical cross-functional leadership and don’t work in a vacuum - they influence, align and direct partner teams to achieve product assurance goals.

• Exercise sound judgement in making high-stakes decisions related to product launch risk and controls.

You’ll be responsible for:

• The end-to-end effective operation of OAI’s product assurance program from product development to post-launch (continuous) monitoring

• Owning the GRC product assurance program, providing governance over Safety, Deployment, Security, Legal reviews to ensure we effectively surface product risk and design scalable mitigations

• Driving cross-function collaboration and accountability in all aspects of the product assurance program

• Building controls and low-friction, scalable processes in our infrastructure stack, developer workflows and launch tooling to ensure effective product assurance

• Ensuring that teams have the guidance needed to design and launch safety and meet them where they are

• Ensuring compliance, security and privacy claims and maps to verifiable controls

• Recognizing how the product lifecycle assurance program fits into the large organizational objectives and when to build and when to influence and maintain strong partnerships with partner teams and influence roadmaps to further assurance goals

• Applying sound judgement in launch reviews, technical assurance trade-off and management of OAI risk posture to guide product and engineering teams on the highest priorities

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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