OpenAI · 1 day ago
Workforce Planning Manager
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Workforce Planning Manager to build the foundation for planning, tracking, and forecasting growth while serving as a bridge across various departments. This role involves establishing frameworks for headcount planning, aligning hiring priorities with business needs, and providing insights to leadership.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Build Workforce Planning as a Function
Establish the frameworks, governance, and reporting that become the backbone of headcount planning at OpenAI
Create consistent definitions and standards for headcount across the company
Lay the groundwork for a future Workforce Planning COE
Partner with Finance to translate business goals into headcount budgets and reconciliations
Align hiring priorities with organizational strategy, ensuring clarity on sequencing and trade-offs
Play a central role in quarterly and annual planning cycles, partnering with Finance and Leadership to ensure headcount decisions are aligned with strategic priorities and trade-offs are clearly surfaced
Model recruiting capacity vs. demand to inform which roles to open and when
Partner with Recruiting Leadership to ensure hiring prioritization matches funnel realities
Provide executive visibility into supply/demand health with clear dashboards
Integrate and reconcile data across Finance (Anaplan), Recruiting (Ashby), People Ops (Workday), and Real Estate (occupancy dashboards)
Ensure a single source of truth for headcount, hiring progress, and future forecasts
Build reporting that ties hiring outcomes to financial plan and space requirements
Translate data into actionable insights for leadership, surfacing trade-offs between budget, recruiting capacity, and real estate needs
Build models for headcount growth, attrition, and hiring pace
Partner with Real Estate & Workplace Services to forecast space needs under different scenarios
Deliver scenario analyses to inform executive decision-making
Act as the connective tissue between Finance, Recruiting, People Ops, and Real Estate
Influence senior stakeholders with insights grounded in data
Anticipate and surface trade-offs between budget, hiring capacity, and organizational needs
Qualification
Required
7–10+ years in workforce planning, people analytics, FP&A, or strategic operations, ideally in a fast-scaling tech environment
Proven experience building new processes, systems, or functions from scratch
Strong analytical toolkit; comfortable working across HRIS, ATS, financial planning, and real estate systems (Workday, Ashby, Anaplan, or equivalents)
A track record of driving alignment across executive-level stakeholders
Able to operate at two altitudes: strategic partner to leadership and hands-on builder of infrastructure
Excited by the opportunity to create a new function that will scale with the company
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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2025 (1)
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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