Workplace Business Partner
At a glance
Highlights
- Relocation assistance available
- 5‑day onsite collaboration
- Cross‑functional stakeholder engagement
- Mission‑driven workplace impact
Heads up
- 5‑day onsite requirement
Why this role might suit you
The role offers the chance to shape employee experience at a leading AI company, work closely with diverse teams, and influence workplace culture while benefiting from relocation support and a mission‑focused environment.
Skills
About the role
About the Team
The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team at OpenAI designs and manages spaces, programs, and services that empower our employees and advance our mission. Our team covers a diverse range of functions, including leasing, global operations, analytics, construction, workplace experience, and employee services. We strive to support OpenAI’s mission of researching and deploying safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity by optimizing the employee experience and maintaining operational excellence and financial discipline through rigorous focus on flexibility, cost effectiveness, intentional design, and scalable, people-centric solutions.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced workplace professional to support employee engagement and operational collaboration. This is an extremely collaborative role that is pivotal to ensuring our employees work in the best facilities possible with an ever-changing environment.This role reports to the AMERs Sr. Workplace Manager within the Workplace Operations org and involves close collaboration across various REW pillars and other cross-functional partners including Leasing, Workplace Experience, Global Food Programs, Executive Business Partners, Corporate Security, IT, and other external partners.
This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with the requirement of being in the office 5 days per week. Relocation assistance is available for new hires.
In this role, you will:
- Own and run workplace programs end-to-end, ensuring smooth execution and a consistently positive employee experience.
- Communicate workplace-related updates and concerns clearly and proactively to employees, acting as a trusted and approachable point of contact.
- Design and launch initiatives that strengthen company culture, employee engagement, and connection across teams.
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., People, IT, Facilities, Security, Finance) through regular check-ins and ongoing collaboration.
- Provide dedicated workplace support for one or more organizations within the company, understanding their unique needs and advocating on their behalf.
- Serve as a source of truth for the teams you support, maintaining accurate information, documentation, and guidance related to workplace programs and policies.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- Strong, natural people skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- The ability to move fast, think on their feet, and thrive in a constantly changing environment.
- A true “no problem too small” approach — equally comfortable handling high-impact work and day-to-day details.
- A wide-ranging understanding of the REW ecosystem, with curiosity and flexibility to stretch across functions as needed.
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 Operations role pays $158k-$175k/yr. Within typical range for operations roles in United States.
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