# Research Program Manager **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $239K – $328K **Category**: Research **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c7c5ef17-af83-483c-a825-f461f9f63b17?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3de32252-d4f ## 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 $239K – $328K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses 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 OpenAI’s Research Program Management team partners with researchers and engineers to advance the development of increasingly capable, safe, and beneficial AI systems. We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated execution across model training, alignment and safety, and research infrastructure. ### About the Role As a Research Program Manager, you will embed with research teams and help drive some of the most technically complex and consequential work behind OpenAI’s model development. You will translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs, help teams navigate technical and operational tradeoffs, and keep important work moving as new issues emerge. This is a hands-on technical role: you will engage directly with research workflows, experimental results, technical systems, and engineering constraints. ### You might thrive in this role if you: - Have 5+ years of experience in research program management, technical program management, or related roles in fast-moving environments. - Can engage substantively with researchers and engineers on topics such as model training, experimental design, model safety, evaluation methods, data workflows, compute infrastructure, or distributed systems. - Are comfortable working directly with technical tools, research data, experimental results, or operational workflows to understand problems and develop practical solutions. - Have a strong track record of moving complex, ambiguous technical initiatives forward across multiple teams and stakeholders. - Can distinguish what is known from what is uncertain, ask incisive technical questions, and help teams make sound decisions with incomplete information. - Know how to introduce structure without creating unnecessary processes, and care about making researchers more effective. - Bring a high bar for quality and can recognize when evidence, evaluation results, or execution plans need closer scrutiny. - Communicate clearly across technical and nontechnical audiences, including researchers, engineers, and organizational leaders. - Take ownership without waiting for perfect conditions, adapt quickly as priorities change, and follow difficult problems through to resolution. - Care deeply about advancing AI research responsibly and helping ensure increasingly capable systems benefit humanity. ## Skills ### Required - research program management - technical program management - model training - experimental design - model safety - evaluation methods - data workflows - compute infrastructure - distributed systems --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c7c5ef17-af83-483c-a825-f461f9f63b17?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)