# Program Manager, Strategic Futures

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $250k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Research Operations, Stakeholder Management, Executive Communication, Technical Writing, Risk Management, AI Tools, Knowledge Management, Public Policy, Cross-Functional Coordination
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Leads strategic planning, operations, and cross-functional execution for an AI-focused internal think tank. The role requires 5+ years of program, chief-of-staff, operations, policy, consulting, or communications experience, along with exceptional writing, organization, judgment, and stakeholder management.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with the Strategic Futures leader to translate strategy into priorities, operating plans, and deliverables.
- Own planning and execution across research projects, publications, cross-functional collaborations, public-facing work, and special initiatives.
- Convert open-ended goals into workplans with outcomes, owners, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and decision points.
- Develop operating systems such as roadmaps, project trackers, meeting cadences, decision logs, risk registers, and publication or launch plans.
- Coordinate work across Global Affairs, Legal, Research, product policy, safety, preparedness, Communications, and other teams.
- Build internal relationships and help maintain the team’s organizational presence.
- Prepare executive briefings, strategic updates, presentations, agendas, decision documents, talking points, and other written materials.
- Plan and run team and cross-functional meetings; capture decisions and ensure follow-through.
- Identify bottlenecks, gaps, dependencies, and competing priorities, and develop solutions.
- Maintain portfolio visibility and support prioritization and resource-allocation decisions.
- Coordinate review and approval processes for research, publications, presentations, and public-facing work.
- Support external engagements, convenings, and public communications.
- Develop AI-enabled workflows for project management, knowledge sharing, synthesis, coordination, and team effectiveness.
- Help define and evolve the team’s operating model, norms, and ways of working.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in chief-of-staff roles, program management, strategic operations, research operations, consulting, policy, communications, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success driving complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, functions, and competing priorities.
- Exceptional organization and ability to create clarity, momentum, and accountability in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to move between strategic planning and detailed execution.
- Excellent writing and synthesis skills, including turning complex discussions into decisions, plans, briefings, and communications.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across policy, legal, communications, product, safety, and technical research teams.
- Ability to engage credibly with subject-matter experts.
- Excellent judgment and discretion with sensitive, high-visibility, or developing initiatives.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, high-ownership approach with a bias toward action.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving organization with evolving priorities.
- Strong interest in advanced AI and its implications for public policy, governance, institutions, and society.
- Proficiency with AI tools and thoughtful application of them to operational workflows, research synthesis, knowledge management, and coordination.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience in AI policy, emerging technology, government, public affairs, a think tank, a research organization, or another intellectually intensive environment.
- Experience supporting a senior leader while owning a broader portfolio of programs and team operations.
- Experience coordinating research publications, external communications, public events, or other high-visibility outputs.
- Experience establishing or scaling an operating model for a new team, organization, or function.
- Familiarity with organizational and policy questions surrounding advanced AI.

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