Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

About the Position

Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

San Francisco

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About the Team

The Strategic Initiatives & Operations team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline our processes, including full safety governance and integration of various safety research and mitigations into our models. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders, ranging across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated or resolved.

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Responsibilities

As a TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety research progress and risk tables to overseeing the quality of human data campaigns – acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of our safety system. Additionally, you will:

• Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders.
• Keep track of a stack of existing and future mitigations for every major product and model deployment.
• Standardize the lifecycle of risk assessment, setting safety bars, consolidating inputs from multiple stakeholders across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, pre-launch safety reviews and post-launch follow-up.
• Manage pre-launch safety reviews.
• Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with our key partners.
• Develop comprehensive documentation for all the safety work, including metrics, evaluations, and progress tracking across multiple teams within OpenAI.
• Help with publishing and open sourcing safety learnings, standards, datasets and benchmarks with the public.

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Requirements

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Possess an advanced degree in a hard science, with a PhD being advantageous, or a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.
• Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, complex technical projects against tight deadlines.
• Are technically adept, and have effectively partnered with engineering and fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.
• Expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.
• Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Strong knowledge of content integrity and moderation, including industry best practices and regulatory guidelines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Care about AGI safety.

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About the Company

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week)
• Relocation assistance for new employees
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment

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Join us in shaping the future of technology.