OpenAI is scaling rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Ensuring that acquired teams feel aligned supported and able to contribute quickly is essential to sustaining our performance and preserving our culture.
You will lead the People diligence and integration strategy for acquired teams joining OpenAI. This ensures that new teammates understand our mission leadership principles and how we operate in a high velocity high-trust environment. You will partner closely with Corp Dev Legal People team partners and functional leaders across the business to create a consistent and thoughtful experience from diligence through long-term success.
This role sits within the People Standards team and reports to the Head of Global Employee Relations and People Standards. As our team grows team alignment may evolve as our People organization scales.
Co-design diligence and Integration People strategy with HRBPs Recruiting Corp Dev Legal and functional leaders anchored in performance expectations and culture.
Ensure acquired employees are accurately onboarded into our systems and tools to provide a positive onboarding experience.
Identify and surface risks around culture compensation philosophy and expectations and mission alignment.
Ensure that retained teams have clarity on roles reporting structures decision-making norms and communication channels.
Lead leadership alignment and change management strategies to ensure acquired employees feel trust belonging and purpose.
Create repeatable integration models (org mapping onboarding performance frameworks retention monitoring systems cutover).
Build communications and leader enablement materials that foster transparency and reduce ambiguity during transitions.
Track engagement retention and performance signals to inform integration strategy over 612 months post-close.
7 years in People Ops HRBP partnership M&A and Talent Integration or org transformation.
Experience influencing across senior technical leaders C-suite and cross-functional stakeholders.
Judgment and confidentiality navigating sensitive people transitions and leadership decisions.
Deep empathy and advocacy for the employee experience especially through change.
You will ensure that acquisitions strengthen not dilute our culture performance bar and mission alignment.
You will materially accelerate time-to-impact for acquired talent and teams.
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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