Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $216K – $295K, with generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
About the Team
The OpenAI Risk & Audit team is building an enterprise risk capability for a company operating at the frontier of AI. We help leaders identify, understand, and manage the risks that matter most while enabling responsible innovation and durable growth.
About the Role
As the Head of Enterprise Risk Management, you will help build and lead an integrated ERM program and the ERM platform that supports it. You will establish common risk language, governance, and decision processes while translating them into scalable systems, data products, and workflows.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and evolving OpenAI’s enterprise risk management framework
- Leading enterprise risk assessments and maintaining a centralized risk register
- Establishing key risk indicators, continuous-monitoring capabilities, and executive dashboards
- Enabling risk-informed change governance for new products, markets, partnerships, and other high-impact initiatives
- Leading effective governance forums and preparing concise reporting for senior leadership and the Board
- Defining the strategy and roadmap for a modern ERM platform
- Applying automation, policy-as-code, data analytics, and AI-assisted workflows
- Coordinating risk activities across Finance, Security, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Operations, and Internal Audit
- Building, coaching, and leading a high-performing team
Requirements
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- 12+ years of experience across enterprise or operational risk, compliance, internal audit, security governance, finance, or related fields
- A track record of building or materially scaling an enterprise risk program in a fast-growing, technology-driven, or otherwise complex global organization
- Strong command of ERM and assurance practices
- Experience advising executives and presenting risk information to senior governance bodies
- Technical fluency with GRC platforms, data architecture, APIs, system integrations, cloud environments, and automated workflows
- Experience using data analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools
- The ability to connect strategic, financial, operational, technology, security, and compliance risks
- Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary teams