Recruiting Coordinator

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 Recruiting team is responsible for finding, assessing, and hiring exceptional talent across various fields and specialties. The team acts as consultative and operational partners to our teams across OpenAI and up to our CEO, Sam Altman. We’re an established, collaborative team with a balance of structure, process, and ambitious problems to solve for. 

About the role

We’re looking for a Recruiting Coordinator to join our team and partner directly with Recruiters, Sourcers, and Hiring teams to support our hiring experience.

This role will own the logistics of interviewing, including simple and complex interviews, facilitating office visits/tours, communicating with candidates and overall supporting a world-class candidate experience. You’ll also work closely with our Executive Operations team to help connect candidates with OpenAI’s leadership team.

You’ll have several areas of responsibilities, including:

• Be the primary scheduling and interview planner for various Recruiters and Hiring Managers across our teams.

• Use our tools like Ashby, ChatGPT, G-Suite, and others to uphold a timely and positive hiring experience and process.

• Have the ability to problem solve and adapt to an ever-changing environment while maintaining confidentiality and discretion.

• Manage clear, concise, timely, and professional communication with candidates and hiring partners in written and verbal form.

• Handle candidate reimbursement & travel (domestic and international).

• Work with our Executive Operations team to support and improve candidate experience and management of senior and executive level candidates

We’ll look for these qualities, experience, and skills:

• You have ~1 year of Recruiting Coordination or Admin experience and want to continue mastering this work and role.

• Have a track record of supporting multiple hiring needs and candidates at a time with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Care deeply about building a diverse and inclusive recruiting pipeline and work environment.

• Learn quickly and thrive in a constantly evolving environment with shifting priorities.

• Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence and their potential for positive impact on humanity.

Location and Workplace

This role is based in our Mission Bay, San Francisco office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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