OpenAI · 1 month ago
AI Social Risk Analyst
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$220K/yr - $320K/yr
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an AI Social Risk Analyst to identify and mitigate risks associated with AI-enabled social experiences, ensuring safe user interactions and guiding product decisions. This role involves analyzing safety risks, developing harm taxonomies, and collaborating with various teams to implement effective mitigation strategies.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Map and prioritize the AI-social risk landscape
Build and continuously refine a clear picture of how AI is used in social-like products (e.g., Sora-powered clips, group chats, messaging assistants, creator tools)
Design and maintain harm taxonomies tailored to AI-mediated communication (e.g., synthetic harassment, coordinated AI-assisted brigading, synthetic identity/brand misuse, reputational and intimate harms)
Maintain a risk register and prioritization framework that surfaces the top issues by severity, prevalence, exposure, and trajectory
Detect and deep dive into emerging abuse patterns
Partner with investigations, operations, and product teams to surface new patterns of misuse across Sora, chats, and partner integrations
Run structured deep dives on incidents, from synthetic impersonation and scams to targeted harassment or coordinated influence using AI-generated media
Connect individual incidents into system-level stories about actors, incentives, product design weaknesses, and cross-product spillover
Turn analysis into actionable risk intelligence
Translate findings into clear, ranked risk lists and concrete proposals for mitigations that product, safety, and policy teams can execute on
Collaborate with Safety Systems, Integrity, and Product to scope solutions such as classification improvements, UX guardrails, friction, enforcement flows, and detection signals
Track whether mitigation work is landing: follow key indicators, pressure-test assumptions, and push for course corrections when the data demands it
Build early warning and measurement capabilities
Help define the core metrics and signals that indicate whether AI-social environments are safe (e.g., key harm prevalence, severity distributions, escalation rates, brand safety issues)
Work with data science and visualization colleagues to shape monitoring views and dashboards that highlight leading indicators and unusual changes in user behavior or abuse patterns
Propose targeted probes, structured reviews, and experiments that surface new risk modes around major launches and feature changes
Provide strategic analysis and future-looking perspectives
Produce concise, decision-ready briefs on AI-social risks for leadership, safety forums, and partner teams
Run scenario analyses that explore how AI-social harms might evolve over the next 6–24 months (e.g., how attackers might adapt to Sora, how group chats could be used for coordination, likely pressure points for brands and public figures)
Benchmark OpenAI’s AI-social risk profile and mitigations against external incidents and other platforms, highlighting gaps, strengths, and opportunities
Shape safety readiness for social-like AI products
Contribute to product readiness and launch reviews by laying out expected abuse modes, risk tradeoffs, and monitoring/response plans
Turn risk insights into practical guidance for internal teams (product, marketing, partnerships, comms) and, where appropriate, external partners using OpenAI technologies in social and brand contexts
Develop reusable frameworks, playbooks, FAQs, and briefing materials that make it easier for the broader organization to understand AI-social risks and respond consistently
Qualification
Required
Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in trust and safety, integrity, security, policy analysis, or intelligence work focused on social media, messaging, online communities, or adjacent environments
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex online harms (e.g., harassment, coordinated abuse, scams, synthetic media, influence operations, brand safety issues) and convert analysis into concrete, prioritized recommendations
Strong analytical skills and comfort working with both qualitative and quantitative inputs, including: (1) Casework, incident reports, OSINT, product context, and policy frameworks. (2) Basic metrics and trends in partnership with data science (e.g., harm prevalence, severity profiles, exposure, escalation rates)
Strong adversarial and product intuition, able to foresee how actors might adapt AI-social and creative tools for misuse and evaluate how product mechanics, incentives, and UX decisions influence risk
Experience designing and using risk frameworks and taxonomies (e.g., harm classification schemes, severity/likelihood matrices, prioritization models) to structure ambiguous spaces and support decision-making
Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, operations, legal, and policy teams, including pushing for clarity on tradeoffs and following through on mitigation work
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing concise, executive-ready briefs and explaining sensitive, complex issues in grounded, concrete terms
Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments: you can identify weak signals, form hypotheses, test them quickly, and adjust as the product and threat landscape evolves
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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Funding
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CEO & Co-Founder
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