Research Program Manager, Governance

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 239,000 - 328,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Skills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Sound judgment","Problem-solving","Communication","Stakeholder management"]

Lead governance program work by bringing together technical, policy, and operational inputs to create coherent assessments and decision materials for senior leaders. Tackle emerging or ambiguous questions by identifying gaps, conflicting evidence, and needed analysis. Partner across research, safety, security, legal, product, and leadership to translate recommendations into accountable plans, maintain clear records, and improve governance practices as capabilities evolve.

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Research Program Manager, Governance

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Job Summary

Lead governance program work by bringing together technical, policy, and operational inputs to create coherent assessments and decision materials for senior leaders. Tackle emerging or ambiguous questions by identifying gaps, conflicting evidence, and needed analysis. Partner across research, safety, security, legal, product, and leadership to translate recommendations into accountable plans, maintain clear records, and improve governance practices as capabilities evolve.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop governance assessments, recommendations, and decision materials by combining technical, policy, and operational inputs.
  • •Work through emerging or ambiguous questions by testing assumptions, identifying gaps or conflicting evidence, and determining needed decisions or analysis.
  • •Engage with research, evaluations, safeguards, and risk assessments to understand what evidence supports and where uncertainty remains.
  • •Partner with governance-body chairs, technical leaders, and stakeholders to frame key questions and communicate conclusions clearly.
  • •Translate feedback and decisions into actionable plans with accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and maintain records of rationale and open questions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 328,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Lead complex, cross-functional work in a research, technology, policy, safety, security, governance, or related environment.
  • •Reason from first principles and synthesize incomplete or conflicting information into clear recommendations.
  • •Turn ambiguous requests into practical work with accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and completion criteria.
  • •Write clearly and precisely when explaining difficult issues and recommendations to senior decision-makers.
  • •Exercise sound judgment in sensitive situations and navigate disagreement constructively.
Experience:Research program managementStrategy and operationsAI safetyTechnical risk managementBoard-level advisory
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationSound judgmentProblem-solvingCommunicationStakeholder management

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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