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OpenAI · 2 days ago

Strategic Risk Manager

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Strategic Risk Manager will help build a central view of strategic risk across OpenAI’s products, correlating internal and external data to inform risk prioritization and mitigation efforts.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Own the weekly emerging risks and trends report that synthesizes internal abuse patterns, OSINT, and conversational signals into clear, ranked watchlists and decision-ready summaries

Prioritize risks for the Intelligence & Investigations (I2) team and represent I2 as a core risk-prioritization input for cross-functional safety efforts

Build and automate a living risk register and risk heat map that quantify exposure, likelihood, and impact, and that clearly map each risk to mitigation owners, plans, and status

Produce a monthly brief with real-world data, trendlines, and recommended levers for mitigation, resourcing, and product changes

Build benchmarks against industry peers and historical baselines, in partnership with the measurement team, so we can assess whether mitigations are working and where residual risk remains

Act as the connective tissue with the measurement & forecasting sub-team to ensure that risk judgments, rankings, and narratives are grounded in prevalence estimates, trajectories, and uncertainty

Integrate abuse telemetry and qualitative intelligence into decision ready risk judgments that shape prioritization and lead to concrete mitigation across investigations, engineering, policy, trust & safety, and product teams

Define and track risk mitigation effectiveness metrics to show where interventions worked, stalled, or need re prioritization

Communicate insights through concise briefs, dashboards, and live readouts that drive executive action, quarterly prioritization, and cross-functional alignment

Qualification

Strategic risk managementThreat intelligenceRisk reportingData analysisRisk prioritization frameworksAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration

Required

7+ years of experience in strategic risk, threat intelligence, trust & safety, policy analysis, or a related field, including experience owning prioritization or risk-reporting processes for senior leaders

Experience influencing senior leaders and driving alignment across technical, policy, and product teams in fast moving environments

Experience designing and running risk registers, heat maps, or prioritization frameworks that connect likelihood, impact, and exposure to concrete mitigations and owners

Comfortable working with both quantitative and qualitative inputs—ranging from abuse telemetry and model logs to OSINT, investigative findings, and narrative threat reporting

Strong analytical skills and familiarity with basic measurement and forecasting concepts (e.g., prevalence, trend analysis, uncertainty), and can collaborate closely with specialized measurement and data science partners

Communicate crisply in writing and verbally, and can translate messy, sparse, or fast-moving signals into decision-ready insights for executives and multidisciplinary partners

Comfortable prioritizing under uncertainty, stating assumptions explicitly, and evolving frameworks as the threat and product landscape changes

Motivated by building horizontal, cross-functional systems (rather than one-off reports) and enjoy being the connective tissue across investigations, measurement, product, and policy