# Program Manager, Safety **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $162K – $240K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/0166f2cc-763b-41d7-9843-e5bc2e9ea5ed?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cf94d3b7-90f ## Description ### Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. - 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - 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, may also be provided. ### About the Team The Safety Systems team works to ensure OpenAI's most capable models can be developed and deployed responsibly. Our work spans evaluations, safeguards, red teaming, deployment decisions, and the systems that help OpenAI understand and reduce risk as models become more capable and widely used. Safety Systems is in need of a Safety Program Manager to streamline our safety review process. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models and products, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders , across research, product, engineering, legal, and policy , and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated, or resolved. ### About the Role As a Safety Program Manager, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety reviews and risk tables as part of OpenAI’s launch processes to acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of our safety systems. This role is incredibly cross functional, working with stakeholders across our research, engineering, integrity, product, and strategy teams to ensure our launches have been thoroughly reviewed for safety risks. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. ### In this role, you will: - Coordinate cross-functional safety launch readiness across model and product releases, ensuring risk tables, mitigations, monitoring plans, and decision points are clearly tracked from early scoping through post-launch review. - Build operating rhythms across Safety Systems, Integrity, Strategy, User Operations, and engineering teams so safety learnings from past launches translate into concrete improvements to automated safeguards, tooling, and review processes. - Design and run key internal programs, including incident management and processes for regularly updating our safety mitigations. - Work directly with technical stakeholders to create scalable, repeatable safety processes. ### You might thrive in this role if you: - Graduate degree in computer science, engineering, management or equivalent experience. - Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex projects against tight deadlines. - Are technically versed, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber. - Have expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems. - Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments. - Have strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines. - Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. - Care about AGI safety. ### Compensation Range $162K - $240K USD ## Skills ### Required - computer science - engineering - management - project management - process design - incident management - safety mitigations - technical stakeholder management - communication - content integrity - moderation - regulatory guidelines --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/0166f2cc-763b-41d7-9843-e5bc2e9ea5ed?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)