Hiring: Research Program Manager, Governance Company: OpenAI Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 07:41:08 Target Skills & Keywords : AI About the job Experience: •Research program management or strategy and operations in a technically complex organization. •AI safety, preparedness, model evaluations, cybersecurity, or technical risk management. •Advisory committees, board-facing work, executive decision support, or other consequential reviews. •Translating policies, standards, or governance decisions into practical requirements and programs. •Strategic partnerships or sensitive deployment contexts. Required Skills: •The work requires someone who can use established approaches where they fit, recognize when circumstances call for a different approach, and update their thinking as new evidence emerges. You should bring sound judgment, a willingness to experiment and learn, and the program-management discipline to turn good analysis into action. •Depending on your experience and the team’s needs, your work may focus on safety advisory and board-level oversight, deployment governance, or standards and strategic partner commitments. •In This Role, You Will •Bring together technical, policy, and operational inputs to develop coherent assessments, recommendations, and decision materials for governance bodies and senior leaders. •Work through emerging or ambiguous questions, test assumptions, identify gaps or conflicting evidence, and help determine what additional analysis or decisions are needed. •Engage critically with research, evaluations, safeguards, and risk assessments, working with the relevant experts to understand what the evidence supports and where uncertainty remains. •Partner with governance-body chairs, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to shape substantive reviews, frame the questions that matter, and communicate conclusions clearly. •Translate feedback, recommendations, and decisions into concrete work with accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and clear criteria for completion. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!