Head of ESG Reporting & Operations

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project management of OpenAI’s ESG and mission-related reporting efforts, including timelines, work plans, stakeholder coordination, review cycles, and final delivery.
• Build and run the operating cadence for the reporting process, including working groups, executive check-ins, steering committee updates, decision forums, and escalation paths.
• Partner with subject-matter experts across the company to gather inputs, clarify ownership, track milestones, and resolve dependencies.
• Coordinate with functional leaders to ensure relevant KPIs, initiatives, and progress updates are accurately reflected in reporting.
• Create repeatable processes for data collection, metric tracking, evidence gathering, internal validation, and report review.
• Develop project plans, status updates, executive briefings, board materials, and internal narratives that make progress, risks, and decisions clear.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Risk, and Compliance on disclosure readiness, review processes, reporting frameworks, controls, and documentation.
• Manage complex cross-functional workstreams across environmental impact, social responsibility, governance, workforce programs, responsible sourcing, and other reportable areas.
• Translate broad reporting obligations and stakeholder inputs into clear deliverables, deadlines, ownership, and decision points.
• Serve as the connective tissue across teams, ensuring reporting work is coordinated, visible, and accountable.

Requirements

• Experience leading or significantly scaling ESG, sustainability, corporate responsibility, risk, compliance, or reporting and governance programs.
• Strong program management and operational execution skills, with a track record of driving high-stakes work across multiple senior stakeholders.
• Practical fluency with ESG frameworks and standards, disclosure processes, evidence collection, and internal controls.
• Direct experience managing reporting processes end-to-end, including disclosure timelines, evidence collection, review cycles, and stakeholder sign-off.
• Ability to work effectively with executive stakeholders and translate ambiguous requirements into practical plans and crisp decision points.
• Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with ESG metrics, operational data, dashboards, and reporting processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create clear materials for executives, employees, customers, regulators, and external stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure, urgency, and accountability to emerging areas of work.
• High judgment, strong ownership, and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Nice-to-Haves

• Ability to connect traditional ESG reporting practices with AI-specific considerations.