operations
Posted Jun 15Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Lead vendor and partner engagements for data sourcing – including evaluating suppliers, negotiating agreements, and managing delivery.
Requirements
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Foundations Data and Operations team is responsible for acquiring the data OpenAI needs to build frontier AI models.
- experience in operations, strategy, venture capital, private equity, or consulting, with at least 5 years operating within a company.
- experience taking end-to-end ownership of large, ambiguous problems, and breaking them down into clear, actionable plans. - Have direct
- experience engaging with executives and senior leaders to influence and drive strategic decisions.
- - Excel under pressure, bringing a high motor and exceptional adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- - Are highly analytical - sophisticated in your understanding and approach to analyses; ability to ask and answer the most important questions, and present results clearly to leaders to influence decision making.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have 8+ years of
Benefits
- - Are comfortable operating at all altitudes – discussing strategy and vision with executives, and troubleshooting operations with individual contributors and external partners.
Additional details
- We run high-impact data acquisition programs, such as our web crawler and our data partnerships, and work closely with research to build the training datasets for our models.
- Our work advances the intelligence of our models and teaches them new skills that hundreds of millions of people benefit from every day.
- ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring a Program Manager to join our team.
- In this role, you will lead programs to acquire training data to advance our research roadmap.
- You will work with researchers to define requirements, design and manage acquisition workflows, and establish processes to execute them at scale.
- This role requires a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- The ideal candidate can navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and drive alignment across technical and business teams.
- This role may require living close to some physical operations across the US and some hybrid travel to San Francisco. IN THIS ROLE,
- YOU WILL: - Work closely with research to understand data needs and define acquisition priorities and timeline that are aligned with our research roadmap. - Translate research objectives into clear technical
- requirements and operational plans, ensuring data workflows, timelines, and quality standards are executed to the highest quality standards.