Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities

• Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
• Track 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 followup.
• Manage pre-launch safety reviews.
• Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with our key partner (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.
• Track safety research progress and risk tables.
• Oversee the quality of human data campaigns.
• Create and execute a compute roadmap for the team to ensure top priorities are resourced and to enable key safety research discoveries.
• Ensure models are qualified for safe deployment.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in a hard science (PhD advantageous) or demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
• Extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.
• Technically adept with experience partnering with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
• Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• PhD in a hard science.