# Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $257k – $445k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Risk Assessment, Safety Governance, Stakeholder Management, Process Standardization, Technical Project Management, Documentation, Metrics Tracking, Safety Evaluations, Compute Roadmapping, Content Moderation, Agi Safety
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Technical Program Manager driving safe deployment of OpenAI models including ChatGPT and frontier models. Standardize risk assessment lifecycles, track mitigations and safety research, manage pre-launch reviews, and coordinate across research, engineering, legal, and policy stakeholders.

## Job Description

## 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.

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