Safety Policy Manager, Global Affairs

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Safety Policy Manager in Global Affairs at OpenAI, you will play a central role in developing proactive policy positions focused on AI safety, working closely with regional teams to analyze legislative and regulatory proposals and translate technical safeguards into policy-relevant insights.
• Day to day, you will identify, track, and analyze emerging global legislative and regulatory trends, synthesize regional insights, develop policy positions informed by technical expertise, coordinate cross-functional policy campaigns, and collaborate with legal, product, research, and safety systems teams to ensure technical perspectives shape advocacy efforts.
• You will join OpenAI’s Global Affairs team, which builds authentic relationships with policymakers worldwide to ensure AI development is guided by inclusive, safety-conscious regulation and industry standards that benefit all of humanity.
• In this role, you will deepen your expertise at the intersection of AI safety, technology policy, and global governance, drive impactful policy initiatives such as white papers and coalition engagement, and grow your ability to bridge technical and policy audiences in fast-moving, high-stakes environments.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience working at the intersection of technology, policy, and politics with a focus on AI safety
• Understanding of AI safety issues including frontier risks (cyber, CBRN, alignment) and consumer safety concerns (algorithmic discrimination, fraud, high-risk domains)
• Experience working on technology policy in government or private sector policy/legal teams
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and engage on complex regulatory and legislative proposals, including drafting positions and supporting negotiations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with experience briefing senior officials and translating technical concepts for policy audiences
• Ability to execute in fast-paced, flexible environments through rapid cycles of analysis, decision, and action

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation range of $171K - $280K USD
• Relocation assistance for new employees
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI safety and policy challenges with global impact
• Collaboration across technical, legal, research, and product teams at a leading AI research organization
• Access to industry-leading research and tools, with exposure to evolving generative AI technologies
• Commitment to reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

Skills & Technologies

REST

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$171k-280k

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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