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About the Team The OpenAI Audit Team is on a mission to build the future of internal audit from the ground up. Our ambition will be powered by a high-energy, technically exceptional team with the judgment, intellectual curiosity, and creativity to harness the latest advances in AI and design a truly next-generation audit function. As AI reshapes how work is performed across the enterprise, Internal Audit will use AI, automation, and data analytics to identify and assess the most significant and emerging risks across the business, including technology, cybersecurity, finance, compliance, operations, and data. We will build trusted partnerships at every level—from the Board of Directors and senior leadership to the teams delivering on OpenAI’s mission every day. We will operate as both an independent assurance provider and a trusted advisor, bringing an objective and pragmatic perspective to critical decisions. By engaging closely with management while preserving our independence, we will help the business innovate responsibly, move with confidence, and manage risk without creating unnecessary barriers. About the Role As the Finance & Operations Audit Leader, you will help shape the strategy, methodology, technology, and culture of a new audit function. You will lead complex audits, forensic and investigative reviews, and advisory work across financial reporting, accounting, finance, and business operations, while addressing related compliance risks. You will advise leaders on practical ways to strengthen governance, execution, accountability, and risk management. You are an experienced, hands-on professional who combines deep finance and accounting knowledge with strong audit, risk, and business judgment. Your work will span across finance & accounting areas including treasury, tax, revenue, financial planning, business operations, and enterprise governance, with opportunities to apply forensic accounting techniques to complex transactions, anomalies, and pot

About the Team OpenAI’s Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team creates and operates the spaces, programs, and services that enable employees to do their best work. The team’s work spans real estate, workplace operations, design and construction, workplace experience, food programs, employee services, analytics, and global programs. As OpenAI’s presence in India grows, REW is building flexible, scalable, AI-native, people-centered workplaces that combine a consistent employee experience with strong operational and financial discipline and thoughtful adaptation to each location. Workplace & Location The location for this role is Mumbai . The role requires to be onsite 5 days per week, with regular travel among Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Senior Workplace Operations Manager to set the operational direction, define the workplace operating model, and lead workplace operations and employee experience across OpenAI’s locations in India, including but not limited to Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore. This hands-on, country-level role combines strategic planning, senior stakeholder partnership, and day-to-day execution in a fast-changing environment. As OpenAI’s senior workplace operations owner in India, you will translate business and employee needs into a scalable, AI-native operating model and define the standards, priorities, and service outcomes that support the country’s growth. You will remain accountable for delivery through integrated facilities-management partners, contractors, and specialist vendors, while partnering closely with India business leaders, regional REW leadership, and colleagues across REW, Workplace Experience, Leasing, Design & Construction, Food, Corporate Security, IT, Finance, People, and Procurement. This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting to the Head of Workplace, JAPAC. You’ll be responsible for: Set and own the country-wide workplace operating model, service qualit

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Tax team is a vital part of OpenAI, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations while optimizing the company's tax position. We work closely with various departments to provide tax insights and strategies that support the company's growth and financial objectives. About the Role We're hiring a Senior Manager, International Indirect Tax Compliance to own and continuously improve our end-to-end international indirect tax compliance process. This role will be responsible for driving timely, accurate compliance; maintaining audit readiness; and building scalable processes that improve visibility, control, and efficiency across the Tax function. You will oversee obligations across VAT, GST, DST, and other indirect tax regimes as OpenAI continues to expand globally. You will partner closely with colleagues across Finance and external service providers to ensure that tax compliance is well-controlled, well-documented, and supported by reliable data and processes. The ideal candidate brings deep international indirect tax compliance experience, strong judgment, and a genuine passion for leveraging technology to streamline and improve compliance operations. A strong interest in automation, analytics, and process improvement will be important for success in this role. This role is based in Dublin, Ireland. 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: Own OpenAI’s global indirect tax compliance operating model and end-to-end compliance lifecycle across VAT, GST, DST, and related regimes, ensuring timely, accurate, and controlled compliance across an expanding portfolio of jurisdictions. Lead registration lifecycle management, including threshold monitoring, obligation assessments, new registrations, amendments, and deregistrations, with clear governance over

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Technical Accounting to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role This senior leader will own key elements of Ads revenue accounting from technical assessment through operational execution. The role will guide accounting for products, pricing, contracts, incentives, credits, refunds, makegoods, international expansion, and new go-to-market motions. It will establish governance and translate approved accounting positions into launch, billing, data, close, reconciliation, and control requirements. Success requires deep technical revenue expertise, strong business partnership, and the ability to build durable 0-to-1 processes in a fast-changing environment. Advertising is a critical and growing monetization vector for OpenAI, and this role will help shape the financial foundations that enable Ads to scale responsibly and transparently. This role is 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: Lead technical accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements, including performance obligations, variable consideration, allocation, principal-versus-agent, collectibility, contract modifications, refunds, incentives, credits, makegoods, and revenue presentation. Own and continuously evolve Ads revenue accounting policies and operating guidance as product behavior, pricing, contracting, incentive programs, and billing models change. Establish governance for new pro

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers, agencies, and strategic partners to help businesses unlock value through AI-powered advertising solutions while maintaining strong standards for user trust, platform integrity, and responsible innovation. As OpenAI’s advertising business scales, the Head of ScaledAds Sales will build the strategy and operating system for serving businesses at global scale. This leader will connect direct, reseller, and outsourced channels; turn market priorities into execution; and shape a repeatable growth model that protects advertiser outcomes and user trust. This role reports directly to the VP of Global Ads Solutions and will be a key member of their leadership team. About the Role We are seeking a Head of Scaled Ads Sales to define and scale OpenAI’s approach to serving advertisers at scale. You will set the scaled sales strategy across direct, reseller, and business-process-outsourcing (BPO) channels; identify priority markets; and translate that strategy into sequenced, measurable in-market execution. This is a highly strategic and operational leadership role responsible for scaled sales revenue growth and channel performance. You will design the reseller model, select priority vendors and markets, lead RFPs and contracting, and manage partners against clear commercial and customer-quality standards. You will also work closely with outsourced vendors in the BPO channel and test a focused mid-market sales team as a potential growth engine. The ideal candidate combines scaled go-to-market strategy, channel leadership, vendor-management discipline, experimentation, and operational rigor. You are equally comfortable building a business case, running an RFP, coaching internal and partner teams, reviewing funnel economics, and changing course quickly when market evidence challenges the plan

About the Team The B2B Marketing team is responsible for helping businesses understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI’s products. B2B marketing is a major and growing priority for OpenAI as we scale our work with companies, developers, and institutions around the world. Within B2B Marketing, Demand Generation builds the integrated, full-funnel engine that connects audience insights, content, field and digital experiences, paid media, lifecycle, and sales follow-through to qualified pipeline. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Communications, Creative, Web, RevOps, Analytics, and regional teams to create a cohesive customer experience and scale what works. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior ABM Strategist to build and lead the operating model for OpenAI’s highest-priority enterprise accounts. You’ll translate commercial priorities into focused 1:1 and 1 account programs, align Marketing and Sales around shared account plans, and orchestrate buying-group engagement across channels. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who can define the strategy, establish the system, and work directly with cross-functional partners to move strategic accounts toward qualified pipeline and revenue. In this role, you will: Own the enterprise ABM strategy, including account selection, tiering, objectives, program architecture, investment decisions, and performance recommendations. Partner with Sales, SDR, and RevOps to build shared account plans, map buying groups, identify whitespace, define engagement plays, and establish clear follow-up ownership. Design and execute 1:1 and 1 programs across content, paid media, executive engagement, events and webinars, web experiences, outbound coordination, and other relevant channels. Use intent, product, firmographic, engagement, and seller signals to determine when and how to activate priority accounts. Translate account and buyer insights into personalization strategies, offers, messaging, and conte

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the Role This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue in India and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. You will own the full sales cycle — from prospecting to deal closure, developing long-term commercial partnerships to help advertisers achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. You’ll work closely with Customer Success Managers and key cross-functional partners to ensure advertisers achieve successful outcomes after the sale, while maintaining primary ownership of revenue growth and commercial strategy. This role is based in our Mumbai office. 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: Prospect, qualify, and close new advertising opportunities, leading the full sales cycle from initial engagement through contract execution. Own and achieve a defined revenue target within an assigned territory or vertical. Develop and execute structured account plans to drive advertiser ROI and long-term revenue growth. Build and maintain relationships with senior-level advertising decision-makers, delivering strategic guidance and actively gathering their feedback. Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements. Quantify opportunities through clear, data-driven business cases aligned to advertiser objectives. Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Policy, and Operations to support complex deals. Par

About the Team The OpenAI Audit Team is on a mission to build the future of internal audit from the ground up. Our ambition will be powered by a high-energy, technically exceptional team with the judgment, intellectual curiosity, and creativity to harness the latest advances in AI and design a truly next-generation audit function. As AI reshapes how work is performed across the enterprise, Internal Audit will use AI, automation, and data analytics to identify and assess the most significant and emerging risks across the business, including technology, cybersecurity, finance, compliance, operations, and data. We will build trusted partnerships at every level—from the Board of Directors and senior leadership to the teams delivering on OpenAI’s mission every day. We will operate as both an independent assurance provider and a trusted advisor, bringing an objective and pragmatic perspective to critical decisions. By engaging closely with management while preserving our independence, we will help the business innovate responsibly, move with confidence, and manage risk without creating unnecessary barriers. About the Role As the Cybersecurity & Technology Audit Leader, you will help shape the strategy, methodology, technology, and culture of a new audit function. You will lead complex audits and advisory reviews of cybersecurity, technology, data, and AI-related risks while advising leaders on practical ways to strengthen governance, resilience, and risk management. You are an experienced, hands-on professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong business judgment. You can quickly move between executive-level governance questions and detailed technical analysis, use data to identify and assess risk, and form clear, well-supported conclusions in fast-moving or ambiguous situations. You will have meaningful influence over how the function develops, including how we apply AI, automation, and analytics to audit planning, testing, monitoring, and reporting. T

About the Team The Applied AI team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As the leader of our ADEs in the Large Enterprise segment, you’ll help companies transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models. About the Role We are seeking an Applied AI Engineering leader to ensure the technical success of our most strategic Large Enterprise customers across EMEA. In this role, you will manage the entire implementation journey, ensuring seamless platform integration. As the voice of our customers, you will align technical teams to deliver a consistent and exceptional experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Success will be measured by live production applications, increased API adoption, and impactful customer stories that demonstrate the value of our technology. This role is open in both our London and Munich offices. 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: Own the strategy and operating model of the Large Enterprise Applied AI team, ensuring alignment with company objectives and the evolving needs of our customers. Lead, build, and mentor a team of high-performing ADEs to deliver exceptional customer outcomes, as demonstrated by production customer applications and increased API adoption. Serve as the technical advocate for our customers, synthesizing their needs to develop the Research and Applied Product/Engineering roadmaps. Act as the primary technical escalation point during development, fostering trust and maintaining direct communication with executive-level

About the Team OpenAI’s HLS AI Success Engineering team partners with the world’s most ambitious healthcare and life sciences organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real patient outcomes. We guide customers from first deployment through scaled enterprise adoption. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, and sustained program and product delivery. Our customers range from fast-growing healthcare and life sciences innovators to the world’s largest biopharma, medical technology, healthcare provider, payer, and research organizations. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI accelerates scientific innovation, transforms healthcare delivery, and improves patient outcomes.This role sits at the center of our mission. About the Role The AI Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales point of contact for OpenAI’s most important customers. You are responsible for driving account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, identifying new use cases, and delivering measurable value to our customers with OpenAI’s ambitiously growing platform. This role blends technical depth, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. You will partner deeply with customer teams, map workflows, lead configuration, oversee deployment plans, and guide customers toward high impact use cases that showcase the full value of our platform. You will work closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research to ensure the customer experience is connected and successful across every touchpoint. Success in this role means accelerating adoption, increasing customer activation depth, guiding strategic use cases that get to production, and helping customers demonstrate tangible impact. This role is based in San Francisco or NYC, with a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week in the office, or can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. We also provide relocation support for new employees. In this role, you wil

About the Team OpenAI’s HLS AI Success Engineering team partners with the world’s most ambitious healthcare and life sciences organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real patient outcomes. We guide customers from first deployment through scaled enterprise adoption. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, and sustained program and product delivery. Our customers range from fast-growing healthcare and life sciences innovators to the world’s largest biopharma, medical technology, healthcare provider, payer, and research organizations. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI accelerates scientific innovation, transforms healthcare delivery, and improves patient outcomes.This role sits at the center of our mission. About the Role The AI Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales point of contact for OpenAI’s most important customers. You are responsible for driving account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, identifying new use cases, and delivering measurable value to our customers with OpenAI’s ambitiously growing platform. This role blends technical depth, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. You will partner deeply with customer teams, map workflows, lead configuration, oversee deployment plans, and guide customers toward high impact use cases that showcase the full value of our platform. You will work closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research to ensure the customer experience is connected and successful across every touchpoint. Success in this role means accelerating adoption, increasing customer activation depth, guiding strategic use cases that get to production, and helping customers demonstrate tangible impact. This role is based in San Francisco or NYC, with a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week in the office, or can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. We also provide relocation support for new employees. In this role, you wil

About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. We turn policy intent into operational readiness, review standards, quality systems, escalation paths, automation guardrails, and durable cross-functional operating models. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional Program Manager to help build durable operating systems and run some of OpenAI’s most complex safety operations. The core need is a high-agency operator who can take an ambiguous problem, create the right structure, align cross-functional partners, and drive the work through execution. This role will move across Critical Harm priorities as needs evolve. You may step into operationalizing national security or violent-activities workflows, support wellbeing and Frontier Risk initiatives, or help scale programs such as Trusted Access. Deep domain expertise is helpful but not required; the strongest candidates will learn quickly, exercise excellent judgment, and make complex programs move. In this role, you will: Lead strategic operational builds across priority workflows from problem statement to implemented operating model, including scope, owners, milestones, risks, success measures, and execution cadence. Translate policy, safety, technical, legal, and operational constraints into workflows, requirements, playbooks, escalation paths, and decision-making structures that teams can execute. Coordinate with User Ops leadership, Product Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, i2, Legal, Product, Engineering, Support, vendors, and other partners to resolve dependencies and keep critical work moving. Move in and out of workflows as priorities shift—standing up new programs, stabilizing operations, improving handoffs, and transitioning durable ownership to the right team. Use operational data and frontline signals to identify bottlenecks, quality gaps, ca

About the team The Agent Enablement AI Deployment Engineering (ADE) team works across engineering, product, design, partnerships, and strategic customers to grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. We help partners adopt the OpenAI tech stack related to identity, permissioning, agent-auth primitives so users can safely connect ChatGPT and Codex to the tools, services, and workflows they already use. Our team also works with external partners on defining the standards for agent access, marketplace offerings as well as other agent enablement initiatives to ensure users of ChatGPT and Codex go from intent to task completion seamlessly. About the role We are looking for an AI Deployment Engineer to help strategic partners design, build, validate, launch, and operate agent enablement integrations across web applications, connectors, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tools. This is a hands-on, partner-facing product engineering role for someone who can contribute to the platform itself, lead sophisticated technical engagements, and turn ambiguous identity and agent-workflow requirements into secure, production-ready integrations. You will work across partner product and engineering teams and OpenAI’s product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, security, support, and go-to-market teams. You will identify high-value user journeys, choose the right integration path, prototype and review architectures, write code, run evaluations and dogfood, trace failures end to end, guide launch and rollout, and support post-launch iteration. The best person for this role moves fluidly between full-stack code, OAuth/OIDC and identity systems, product judgment, project leadership, and clear communication with engineers and executives. This role is a fit for a product-minded engineer who wants to stay close to users and partners while going deep on authentication, permissions, reliability, safety, and developer experience. The principle objective is to

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Government Sales team has a unique mission to help the U.S. Intelligence Community understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to its most critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, relationship management, and value-driven sales strategy tailored specifically to Intelligence Community customers. You’ll drive key opportunities throughout the full sales cycle, from pipeline generation through deployment and expansion. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, solution strategists, and cross-functional partners to help Intelligence Community customers advance their missions through AI. This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In addition, this role requires frequent on-site engagement at customer and partner facilities across the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia corridor, including classified environments. In this role, you will: Manage a focused set of key U.S. Intelligence Community accounts, developing and executing comprehensive account strategies. Lead Intelligence Community customers through their AI adoption journey, from initial consideration through successful deployment and expansion. Build trusted relationships with senior

About the Team The IT organization is a cohesive team that improves security, productivity, and user experience for everyone at OpenAI. We build and operate the technology foundation that enables every employee to work securely, efficiently, and with high velocity from day one, helping OpenAI remain the most secure and productive AI lab in the world. Our work spans building and maintaining reliable networks, identity and access systems, secure client platforms, and intuitive automation and self-service tools. We also support the full employee journey through smooth onboarding, well-managed hardware and logistics, and responsive global support. As OpenAI grows, we design the technology that powers our offices and keeps collaboration seamless across locations. Through strong security, scale, and simplicity, we enable teams to do their best work. About the Role As a Product Manager, you will lead vision, strategy, and execution for internal systems and platforms that enable secure, reliable, and efficient operations. You will translate technical and operational needs into clear product roadmaps, working closely with IT, engineering, security, and compliance to build scalable, intuitive, and resilient products that remove friction and improve productivity across the company. You are systems-minded, pragmatic and iterative. You thrive in ambiguity, move quickly with good judgment, and learn through iteration and usage data. You understand how internal systems fit together end-to-end and design solutions that balance usability, scale, and security. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ and requires in-office presence. We utilize a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week In this role, you will: Set direction and drive alignment Define and evolve product vision and roadmaps for core internal systems and platforms Ensure tools enable productivity, scale securely, and deliver a seamless employee experience Align priorities across IT, engineering, security, w