Trust & Safety Operations Manager
Trust & Safety Operations Manager
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USD 280000 - 345000
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About the Team
At OpenAI our User Safety & Risk Operations team is responsible for safeguarding our platform and users from abuse fraud and emerging threats. We operate at the intersection of product risk operational scale and real-time safety responsesupporting users ranging from individuals to global enterprises across ChatGPT API platform integrations and more.
This role is a key part of our broader Support organization and partner closely with Product Engineering Policy Legal Go To Market and external vendors to keep our users and platform safe.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced operations leader to build and scale safety workflows teams and programs in a fast-paced high-stakes environment. This role requires comfort with both hands-on execution and cross-functional strategy and will play a foundational part in shaping the long-term structure of our user safety and response efforts.
Youll build systems to address the most urgent risks on the platformranging from day-to-day vendor escalations to rapid response for new types of abuse or threats. Youll also be a key voice in evolving our incident response maturity and helping define how we scale global coverage.
Please note: These roles may involve handling sensitive content including material that may be highly confidential sexual violent or otherwise disturbing.
These roles are 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:
Build and lead a team responsible for handling safety risks across the platform.
Oversee daily operational workflowsincluding safety escalations model labeling abuse investigations vendor delivery and quality review programs.
Drive technical feedback loops with modeling and classifier teams and use qualitative quantitative insights to improve detection systems.
Identify opportunities for automation intelligent triage and structured responseespecially using OpenAI models (e.g. GPT-5 ModAPI) and internal tooling.
Serve as a point of escalation and coordination for high-priority incidents driving response and resolution across cross-functional teams.
Stand up new workflows and playbooks for incident response escalation handling and early risk detection.
Partner with Policy Product Legal and Engineering teams to shape detection enforcement and automation strategies.
Partner with Vendor Operations to optimize coverage training and performance management for external teams.
Define and track operational metrics SLAs and KPIs to ensure operational excellence and identify process improvements.
Drive initiatives to increase automation efficiency and data-driven insights in safety operations.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 10 years in Trust & Safety Risk Operations or Incident Response including 5 years of people management experience.
Have built and scaled high-performing operational teamsincluding people processes vendors and tooling.
Have strong familiarity with LLM behaviors classifier development or AI-driven moderation workflows; direct experience with tools like Python SQL or OpenAI APIs is preferred.
Are comfortable triaging complex ambiguous escalations and influencing detection automation or model improvement workstreams.
Have a track record of process improvement and using data to drive operational decisions.
Thrive in ambiguous high-stakes environments and can balance immediate response with long-term operational maturity.
Maintain a collaborative humble approach and a strong bias for action.
Bring strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a structured data-driven approach to operations.
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 addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
