Technical Program Manager, GRC

About the Team

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.  The GRC team provides security assurances and builds compliance for OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our team tenets include: prioritizing for impact; enabling sales, product, and research; preparing for future transformative technologies; and engaging a robust security and compliance culture.   

 About the Role

As a Technical Compliance Program Manager, you will lead and enhance our technical compliance initiatives, optimizing and managing them end-to-end. You will be responsible for designing scalable technical processes, establishing automated compliance workflows, and directly managing external audits with a focus on technical requirements and controls. This role requires a highly organized, proactive leader with strong technical insight, capable of managing complex project lifecycles in fast-paced environments.

In this role, you will:

• Manage technical audits and compliance programs, driving end-to-end execution and ensuring alignment with industry standards.

• Partner closely with engineering, security, and product teams to develop technical compliance solutions that enable efficient, risk-managed product delivery.

• Prioritize technical risks, building and automating compliance frameworks to reduce operational friction while enhancing security and compliance.

• Leverage technical expertise to automate repetitive compliance tasks, streamlining operations and focusing team efforts on high-impact areas.

• Design and implement workflow improvements that promote continuous compliance and enhance responsiveness to regulatory and internal requirements.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Strong technical program management skills, with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects.

• Experience in managing and automating technical workflows related to security and compliance, especially within high-stakes environments.

• Deep familiarity with technical compliance standards, privacy regulations, and security frameworks.

• Expertise in developing and maintaining technical documentation, audit trails, and compliance reporting.

• A technical background with hands-on experience in compliance software, workflow automation, or a related technical field.

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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