Program Manager, Critical Harm Operations

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About the role

  • Program Manager building scalable critical-harm safety operations for OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. Driving workflows, escalations, automation, and cross-functional operating systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic operational builds across priority workflows from problem statement through implemented operating model
  • Define scope, owners, milestones, risks, success measures, and execution cadence
  • Translate policy, safety, technical, legal, and operational constraints into workflows, requirements, playbooks, escalation paths, and decision-making structures
  • Coordinate with User Operations leadership and Product Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, i2, Legal, Product, Engineering, Support, vendors, and other partners
  • Stand up new programs, stabilize operations, improve handoffs, and transition durable ownership
  • Use operational data and frontline signals to identify bottlenecks, quality gaps, capacity needs, ownership failures, and high-leverage interventions
  • Drive high-priority escalations and cross-functional decisions to closure
  • Create roadmaps, decision logs, status updates, risk registers, operating reviews, and executive communications
  • Identify opportunities for AI tools, automation, lightweight systems, and simpler workflows while preserving appropriate human judgment

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in program management, strategy and operations, product operations, technical program management, trust and safety, support operations, risk operations, implementation, or a related field
  • Track record of taking complex, ambiguous work from problem framing through launch and scaled operation
  • Ability to manage many moving pieces while focusing on critical decisions
  • Ability to build trust and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
  • Technical and analytical fluency with data flows, dashboards, tooling gaps, automation, and failure modes
  • Clear communication with technical, operational, policy, and executive audiences
  • Ability to operate calmly and flexibly in a fast-moving environment and handle high-severity or sensitive work
  • Experience with vendor operations, QA programs, launch readiness, workflow automation, or AI-assisted operations
  • Experience in cybersecurity, biosecurity, or related risk and safety operations is a plus
  • Experience in customer support or other high-stakes scaled operations is nice to have
  • Deep expertise with national security, violence, or other severe-harm domains is nice to have

Benefits

  • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
  • Equal employment opportunity and legally compliant background-check process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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