Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards

The role

Technical Program Managers drive complex product, platform, and safety initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and enterprise environments. They turn safety and product priorities into actionable plans and influence architectural and operational decisions.

What you will do

• Partner with product, engineering, research, and design to shape technical roadmaps and safeguards priorities.
• Translate product and safety objectives into execution plans.
• Lead cross-functional programs from problem definition through implementation and launch.
• Own milestones, dependencies, risk mitigation, and decision-making across multiple teams.
• Partner with engineers on system architecture, APIs, cloud deployment, and technical tradeoffs.
• Drive the development and rollout of safeguards like model evaluations and abuse detection.
• Coordinate readiness for sensitive or high-impact deployments.
• Identify emerging misuse and severe-harm risks and define response mechanisms.
• Establish metrics for program delivery, deployment readiness, and safety effectiveness.
• Communicate program health, risks, and tradeoffs to engineering teams and executives.

Required qualifications

• Technical fluency
• Product judgment
• Strong execution record
• Ability to engage with engineers on system design, implementation tradeoffs, and operational risks
• Program management discipline to coordinate workstreams and resolve dependencies
• Ability to communicate clearly and empathetically with engineering teams, executives, and external stakeholders
• Ability to own high-stakes programs requiring executive presence and cross-organizational influence

Nice to have

• Track record of delivering high-impact technical programs across product, platform, API, infrastructure, machine learning, or safety domains
• Technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud deployments, public or internal APIs, developer platforms, or production machine learning
• Understanding of how safety, integrity, or abuse-prevention systems work
• Experience with sensitive deployments, major cloud providers, or serious-harm domains

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.