# Head of ESG Reporting & Operations

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $260k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Esg Reporting, Sustainability, Program Management, Stakeholder Coordination, Project Management, Esg Frameworks, Internal Controls, Data Collection, Metric Tracking, Executive Communication, Risk Management, Compliance, Governance
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Lead OpenAI’s ESG and mission-related reporting by owning end-to-end project management, building operating cadences, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and creating repeatable processes for data, metrics, and disclosures. Requires strong program management, ESG fluency, executive presence, and experience scaling reporting/governance programs.

## Job Description

## 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.

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