Program Manager, Safety
At a glance
Highlights
- Hybrid work model
- Relocation assistance
- Competitive compensation
- Safety impact
Why this role might suit you
The Safety Program Manager role offers the chance to shape AI safety processes at a leading research organization, working across engineering, research, and policy teams on high‑impact risk mitigation.
Skills
About the role
About the Team
The Safety Systems team works to ensure OpenAI's most capable models can be developed and deployed responsibly. Our work spans evaluations, safeguards, red teaming, deployment decisions, and the systems that help OpenAI understand and reduce risk as models become more capable and widely used. Safety Systems is in need of a Safety Program Manager to streamline our safety review process. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models and products, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders — 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 Safety Program Manager, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety reviews and risk tables as part of OpenAI’s launch processes to acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of our safety systems. This role is incredibly cross functional, working with stakeholders across our research, engineering, integrity, product, and strategy teams to ensure our launches have been thoroughly reviewed for safety risks.
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:
- Coordinate cross-functional safety launch readiness across model and product releases, ensuring risk tables, mitigations, monitoring plans, and decision points are clearly tracked from early scoping through post-launch review.
- Build operating rhythms across Safety Systems, Integrity, Strategy, User Operations, and engineering teams so safety learnings from past launches translate into concrete improvements to automated safeguards, tooling, and review processes.
- Design and run key internal programs, including incident management and processes for regularly updating our safety mitigations.
- Work directly with technical stakeholders to create scalable, repeatable safety processes.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Graduate degree in computer science, engineering, management or equivalent experience.
- Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex projects against tight deadlines.
- Are technically versed, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
- Have expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
- Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Have strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
- Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Care about AGI safety.
Compensation Range: $162K - $240K USD
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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Compensation
This Project / Program Manager role pays $162k-$240k/yr. Within typical range for project / program manager roles in United States.
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