Real Estate and Workplace, Strategy and Operations Manager
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 302 - 335
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Team
The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team is responsible for shaping how OpenAIs physical environments enable innovation collaboration and growth. We oversee global real estate strategy workplace operations design & construction and employee experience across a rapidly expanding footprint.
As OpenAI scales globally REW plays a critical role in creating spaces that enable our team members to do the best work of their lives.
About the Role
The Strategy & Operations Manager is responsible for ensuring the REW organization operates cohesively as we scale. This role translates strategy into sequencing governance alignment and change management across multiple functions including People Finance IT Security and Legal.
This is not a traditional project management role. It is a system-level integrator role that shapes how the organization moves.
This is an in office role (5 days a week) based in San Francisco CA. Relocation is available.
In this role you will:
Translate REW strategy into clear priorities sequencing and execution plans across a fast-scaling org.
Design and run operating cadences and governance forums that drive clarity speed and accountability (without adding bureaucracy).
Lead cross-functional alignment across REW and key partners (People Finance IT Security Legal) surfacing tradeoffs and driving timely decisions.
Drive change management for major workplace and real estate initiatives including comms rollout planning and adoption follow-through.
Identify recurring friction points (process ownership dependencies) and implement lightweight systems to remove blockers and improve coordination.
Support enterprise-scale initiatives including new business needs and M&A integration ensuring REW operating rhythms scale with growth.
Build simple repeatable frameworks (planning decision-making operating metrics) that help the organization move predictably at speed.
Youll thrive in this role if you have:
8 years of experience in strategy operations program leadership or business operations
Experience designing operating models governance forums or cross-functional coordination systems
Demonstrated success scaling complex organizations in high-growth or high-ambiguity environmentsProven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align competing priorities
Strong executive communication skills including structured memo writing and decision frameworks
High judgment with the ability to balance speed risk and organizational health
Low ego high ownership and a systems-oriented mindset
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.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Portfolio Management
- Microsoft Word
- Asset Management
- Yardi
- Microsoft Excel
- Administrative Experience
- DocuSign
- Property Management
- negotiation
- Contracts
- Google Suite
About Company
We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.
