Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 257,000 - 445,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Equity offerings

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager for its Strategic Initiatives team in San Francisco, CA. The role requires managing key risk areas and ensuring the safe deployment of AI models, while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Ideal candidates possess advanced degrees in hard sciences and a proven track record of delivering complex projects. The position offers a hybrid work model with competitive compensation of $257,000 – $445,000 plus equity.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a hard science or demonstrated engineering expertise.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects under tight deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
• Oversee quality of human data campaigns.
• Standardize risk assessment processes and safety reviews.
• Document safety work across multiple teams.
• Share safety practices and evaluations with partners.

Skills

Advanced degree in hard science

Project management

Technical acumen

Content integrity knowledge

Communication skills

Resourcefulness

Education

PhD or relevant engineering expertise

Job description

Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Technical Program Management - San Francisco

The Strategic Initiatives & Operations team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline our processes, including full safety governance and integration of various safety research and mitigations into our ChatGPT, API, and any frontier models. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders, ranging across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated or resolved.

About the Role

As a TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety research progress and risk tables to overseeing the quality of human data campaigns – acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI’s safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety research discoveries. Your primary focus will be to ensure our models are qualified for safe deployment.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will

• Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
• Keep track of a stack of existing and future mitigations for every major product and model deployment.
• Standardize the lifecycle of risk assessment, setting safety bars, consolidating inputs from multiple stakeholders across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, pre-launch safety reviews and post-launch followups.
• Manage pre-launch safety reviews.
• Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with our key partner (i.e. Microsoft).
• Develop comprehensive documentation for all the safety work, including metrics, evaluations, and progress tracking across multiple teams within OpenAI.
• Help with publishing and open sourcing safety learnings, standards, datasets and benchmarks with the public.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Possess an advanced degree in a hard science, with a PhD being advantageous, or a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
• Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.
• Are technically adept, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
• Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
• Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Care about AGI safety.

Compensation

$257,000 – $445,000 + offers equity

Equal Opportunity Employment

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.