Interview Program Manager

About the Team

At OpenAI we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this mission requires hiring extraordinary talent across research engineering product policy operations and leadership roles. The Recruiting team sits at the center of this effort responsible for identifying attracting and delivering world-class candidates who align with OpenAIs values and ambitions.

The Recruiting team is responsible for identifying assessing and hiring people who raise OpenAIs bar while strengthening our culture and execution. Recruiting Operations builds the systems workflows and quality standards that allow hiring to scale without sacrificing rigor or candidate experience.

Interviewer Programs are a key part of this infrastructure. This function builds the systems that support strong interviewing including:

• interviewer onboarding and training

• certification and activation pathways

• calibration and feedback quality programs

• visibility into interviewer readiness and supply

• operational mechanisms that help hiring teams trust interview signal

As OpenAI continues to scale this work ensures our interview process remains consistent fair and high-signal across the company.

About the Role

As a Program Manager for Interviewer Programs you will design and scale the systems that help interviewers ramp quickly stay calibrated and deliver consistent interview signal over time.

You will partner closely with Recruiting Operations recruiting leadership candidate experience systems and analytics teams to translate hiring needs into practical programs workflows and operational infrastructure.

This role focuses on building durable systems rather than coordinating projects. The right candidate is a systems-minded builder who enjoys turning ambiguous problems into scalable programs that improve interviewer readiness and trust in the interview process.

In this role you will:

• Design and scale interviewer onboarding programs that help new interviewers move from training enrollment to live interview readiness

• Build certification shadowing calibration and refresh pathways so interviewer readiness stays current over time

• Develop operating mechanisms for interviewer programs including dashboards SOPs program cadences and escalation paths

• Partner with Recruiting Operations recruiting leadership and coordination teams to improve interviewer activation readiness visibility and supply planning

• Strengthen trust in interview signal through calibration programs feedback quality expectations and remediation pathways

• Embed AI-first practices into interviewer enablement including AI-assisted training documentation and program tooling

• Measure program health through operational metrics such as readiness coverage certification rates calibration participation activation speed and interviewer supply health

• Reduce manual operational work by building scalable self-serve systems for interviewers recruiters and program stakeholders

Youll thrive in this role if you have:

• 58 years of program management experience including ownership of end-to-end operational programs that span multiple stakeholder groups

• Strong program management experience in recruiting operations interview operations enablement learning design or similar operational domains

• Demonstrated ability to design repeatable systems not just manage one-off programs

• Comfort working with AI-enabled tools and workflows that improve operational quality and efficiency

• Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams

• A systems-thinking mindset that connects process tooling data training and stakeholder behavior into a cohesive operating model

• Strong judgment and prioritization in fast-moving ambiguous environments

• Familiarity with interviewer calibration feedback quality recruiting systems or assessment tooling is a plus

Workplace & Location
This role is based in our San Francisco office and we arent considering remote applications at this time. 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.

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