研究项目经理, 治理
Research Program Manager, Governance
关于团队
OpenAI 的治理团队帮助塑造公司负责任地开发和部署日益强大的人工智能的方式。我们结合技术证据、政策和运营视角，帮助公司应对新兴风险，解决复杂问题，并做出有依据的决策。
我们的工作包括制定和改进治理实践，支持有效的监督，制定清晰的评估和建议，并确保决策能够落实。我们与研究、安全、安全、法律和产品团队紧密合作，识别差距，协调不同观点，并随着能力与情况的变化不断改进我们的方法。
关于该职位
我们正在寻找一位充满好奇心、具有高度主动性、能够从基本原理出发进行推理、理解不完整或矛盾的信息并推动困难工作的研究项目经理。您将帮助确定治理审查的内容，跨团队连接想法和证据，并制定既有坚实基础又实际的建议。
这项工作需要有人能够在合适的情况下使用现有方法，识别何时需要不同的方法，并根据新证据更新自己的思路。您应具备良好的判断力，愿意尝试和学习，并具备项目管理的纪律性，将好的分析转化为行动。
根据您的经验和团队的需求，您的工作可能侧重于安全咨询和董事会层面的监督、部署治理，或标准和战略合作伙伴承诺。
在此职位中，您将：
- 整合技术、政策和运营输入，为治理机构和高级领导制定连贯的评估、建议和决策材料。
- 处理出现的或模糊的问题，测试假设，识别差距或矛盾的证据，并帮助确定需要哪些额外分析或决策。
- 批判性地参与研究、评估、防护措施和风险评估，与相关专家合作以了解证据支持什么，以及哪里仍存在不确定性。
- 与治理机构主席、技术负责人和其他利益相关者合作，塑造实质性的审查，明确关键问题，并清晰传达结论。
- 将反馈、建议和决策转化为具体的任务，明确责任人、里程碑、依赖关系和完成的明确标准。
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ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s Governance team helps shape how the company responsibly develops and deploys increasingly capable AI. We bring together technical evidence, policy, and operational perspectives to help the company address emerging risks, resolve difficult questions, and make well-supported decisions.
Our work includes shaping and improving governance practices, supporting effective oversight, developing clear assessments and recommendations, and ensuring that decisions lead to action. We work closely with research, safety, security, legal, and product teams to identify gaps, reconcile different views, and improve our approach as capabilities and circumstances change.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a curious, high-agency Research Program Manager who can reason from first principles, make sense of incomplete or conflicting information, and move difficult work forward. You will help shape the substance of governance reviews, connect ideas and evidence across teams, and develop recommendations that are both well-founded and practical.
The work requires someone who can use established approaches where they fit, recognize when circumstances call for a different approach, and update their thinking as new evidence emerges. You should bring sound judgment, a willingness to experiment and learn, and the program-management discipline to turn good analysis into action.
Depending on your experience and the team’s needs, your work may focus on safety advisory and board-level oversight, deployment governance, or standards and strategic partner commitments.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Bring together technical, policy, and operational inputs to develop coherent assessments, recommendations, and decision materials for governance bodies and senior leaders.
- Work through emerging or ambiguous questions, test assumptions, identify gaps or conflicting evidence, and help determine what additional analysis or decisions are needed.
- Engage critically with research, evaluations, safeguards, and risk assessments, working with the relevant experts to understand what the evidence supports and where uncertainty remains.
- Partner with governance-body chairs, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to shape substantive reviews, frame the questions that matter, and communicate conclusions clearly.
- Translate feedback, recommendations, and decisions into concrete work with accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and clear criteria for completion.
- Drive that work forward across teams, resolve blockers, surface difficult tradeoffs, and escalate disagreements or resource gaps when needed.
- Help teams understand which governance processes apply, integrate reviews into research and deployment plans, and identify changes that require further consideration.
- Maintain clear records of decisions, rationale, conditions, commitments, exceptions, and unresolved questions.
- Help improve governance practices, standards, and guidance as capabilities, evidence, and circumstances evolve.
- Build and refine practical tools, operating cadences, and sources of truth that improve the quality and pace of the work.
- Develop trusted relationships across Research, Safety Systems, Preparedness, Security, Legal, Product, leadership, and relevant external partners.
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU:
- Have experience leading complex, cross-functional work in a research, technology, policy, safety, security, governance, or related environment.
- Take initiative, move quickly, and find practical ways forward when ownership, requirements, or the path to an answer are unclear.
- Are intellectually curious and can learn unfamiliar subjects well enough to ask sharp questions, test an argument, and recognize when deeper expertise is needed.
- Can synthesize complicated or conflicting information without losing important distinctions, limitations, or uncertainty.
- Write clearly and precisely, particularly when explaining difficult issues and recommendations to senior decision-makers.
- Bring strong program-management fundamentals and a record of turning ambiguous requests into work that gets finished.
- Exercise sound judgment in sensitive situations, navigate disagreement constructively, and know when to act independently or seek a decision.
- Are willing to try new approaches, learn from feedback, and change your mind when the evidence changes.
- Build useful structure without adding unnecessary process.
- Care deeply about the responsible development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems.
HELPFUL EXPERIENCE:
- Research program management or strategy and operations in a technically complex organization.
- AI safety, preparedness, model evaluations, cybersecurity, or technical risk management.
- Advisory committees, board-facing work, executive decision support, or other consequential reviews.
- Translating policies, standards, or governance decisions into practical requirements and programs.
- Strategic partnerships or sensitive deployment contexts.
About 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.
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