OpenAI

Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in a hard science; PhD preferred.
  • Proven experience in managing complex technical projects.
  • Strong technical collaboration with engineering and research teams.
  • Ability to design scalable processes for complex challenges.
  • Resourceful in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.
  • In-depth knowledge of content integrity and moderation best practices.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Commitment to AGI safety.

Responsibilities

  • Manage risk areas and engage with stakeholders.
  • Track existing and future mitigations for product deployments.
  • Standardize lifecycle of risk assessments and safety processes.
  • Oversee pre-launch safety reviews.
  • Share launch calendars and safety evaluations with partners.
  • Develop documentation for safety work and progress tracking.
  • Help publish and open source safety standards and findings.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
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 ChatGPT, API, and any frontier 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.

About the Role

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 OpenAI's safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety research discoveries. Your primary focus will be to ensure our models are qualified for safe deployment.

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:
  • 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 followup.
  • Manage pre-launch safety reviews.
  • Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with our key parter (i.e. Microsoft).
  • 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.

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.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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2015

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