[Hiring] Strategic Initiative Lead @Openai
Mar 21, 2025 - Openai is hiring a remote Strategic Initiative Lead. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: UK, France.
Role Description
As the Strategic Initiative Lead, you will drive cross-functional efforts that expand the global impact and operational scalability of the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis team. You’ll act as a senior strategic operator—leading initiatives to internationalize our analytical outputs, align with global norms, and build strategic partnerships that advance a safer AI ecosystem.
- Design and execute multi-quarter strategic projects that scale OpenAI’s intelligence and online safety ecosystem globally.
- Translate high-level safety, policy, and technical goals into project roadmaps with clear milestones, ownership, and delivery plans.
- Lead the development of frameworks for scaling analytical outputs to external partners in ways that protect OpenAI’s models and users.
- Work with internal partners (e.g., Global Affairs, Legal, GTM, Product, Safety Systems) to align on initiatives that advance AI safety.
- Build and manage initiatives that connect internal capabilities with the needs of high-impact external stakeholders (e.g., governments, civil society, and enterprise partners).
- Spearhead efforts to localize threat models, analytical outputs, and safety insights for regional contexts and non-English-speaking partners.
- Serve as a senior representative of the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis team in key engagements with partners, customers, and senior leadership.
- Author strategic memos, present analyses, and drive alignment across internal decision-makers on complex safety trade-offs and ecosystem expansion.
- Define success metrics and KPIs for high-impact safety initiatives and monitor progress across time.
- Identify execution risks early and create structured mitigation strategies to preserve timelines and outcomes.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in strategy, operations, trust and safety, intelligence, or international policy roles.
- Strong track record of launching complex cross-functional initiatives, ideally in a global technology or safety-first environment.
- Deep understanding of technology policy, AI safety, or emerging risks in digital ecosystems is a strong plus.
- Experienced in designing and managing cross-functional projects at the intersection of safety, policy, and technology.
- Exceptional communication skills and can distill complex strategic and technical inputs into crisp narratives for senior stakeholders.
- Excited by the mission of proactively shaping the responsible deployment of AI globally and building tools that scale impact.
- Thrive in ambiguous and fast-evolving contexts, and are able to operate autonomously while aligning with a broader mission.
Company Description
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.
- For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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Salary
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UK, France
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 21, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: UK, France |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
