Senior People (HR) Compliance Manager

About the Team

OpenAIs People team is committed to hiring engaging and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The Global Employee Relations Employment Investigations and People Standards team brings together expertise in employee relations workplace investigations and people policy and compliance. We play a critical role in shaping how OpenAI supports its people through complexity growth and change.

Our team guides and supports the company through some of its most nuanced and high-impact people challenges. We operate with deep context and care balancing trust judgment and creativity in every situation. We dont default to predefined frameworks. Instead we take a principled yet flexible approach designing thoughtful tailored solutions that reflect our values the needs of our employees and the unique pace of OpenAI.

About the Role

Were seeking a Senior People Compliance Manager to support the design execution and continuous improvement of OpenAIs global People compliance programs. Reporting to the Head of People Standards & Compliance this role will lead cross-functional initiatives analyze policy and regulatory impacts and help operationalize people processes that meet evolving legal requirements and internal standards and align with OpenAIs goals and values. This is a highly collaborative and detail-oriented position that will work closely with Legal People Finance and other internal teams to ensure our programs are effective auditable and scalable.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage project plans for global People compliance initiatives coordinating timelines resources and execution across stakeholders.

• Analyze current and upcoming employment laws (e.g. FLSA ADA FMLA GDPR) to assess impact on policies and processes; support in drafting updates or new policies as needed.

• Support People risk assessments audits and internal reviews; identify gaps and help implement mitigation strategies.

• Create and maintain documentation frameworks and matrices that ensure our policies and practices are compliant accessible and consistently applied across regions.

• Partner cross-functionally with Legal Global Mobility Internal Audit Recruiting and other teams to ensure operational compliance related to employee records immigration classification and global expansion.

• Build and track key compliance and audit metrics prepare dashboards and reporting for leadership visibility and make data-informed recommendations.

• Contribute to the development and rollout of employee training materials and process documentation that support compliance awareness and adherence and track administration of such training.

• Support periodic program reviews and audits to assess effectiveness and identify areas for improvements to further promote a culture of compliance.

• Assist in the coordination of external audits regulatory reviews or legal requests related to People practices and records and support mandatory government filings.

• Maintain strong knowledge of relevant global employment legislation staying current on new developments and contributing to scenario planning and risk preparedness.

• Experience with executing against global compliance goals and supporting office global expansion strongly preferred.

• Strategic thinker with a proactive and pragmatic approach to addressing compliance issues.

Were Seeking:

• 68 years of experience in program management compliance People operations or risk/audit functionspreferably in fast-scaling global environments.

• Deep familiarity with U.S. and international employment law concepts and People compliance practices.

• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder programs with legal People Team or operational complexity.

• Proven ability to manage documentation audit trails and operational rigor in a dynamic environment.

• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to independently manage multiple priorities.

• Analytical mindset with experience building reports metrics or dashboards to track performance and risk.

• Strong written communication skills particularly for policies project summaries and audit documentation.

• A calm discreet and ethical approach to sensitive data and interpersonal dynamics.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office and we arent considering remote applications. We offer relocation support to new employees and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks conference rooms phone booths well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks three in-house prepared meals daily a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing nap rooms private bike storage and more.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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