Program Manager, Safety
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 cre...