Build safety operations at OpenAI through operational design, risk judgment, and workflow automation. This Toronto-based role is currently remote.

As a Program Manager, you will create durable operating systems for User Safety & Risk Operations. The work spans policy, technical, legal, and operational constraints, requiring structured execution across complex programs. Priorities may include Frontier Risk, wellbeing, national security, violent activities, or Trusted Access.

Key Responsibilities

Design workflows, requirements, playbooks, and escalation paths

Create roadmaps, decision logs, risk registers, and operating reviews

Stand up programs and transition durable ownership to teams

Identify automation opportunities while preserving human judgment





Coordinate Product, Engineering, Legal, Safety, and operations partners

Requirements

8+ years in program management, strategy, or risk operations

Experience taking complex work through launch and scaled operation

Solid organization, judgment, and execution focus

Comfort reasoning about dashboards, tooling gaps, and failure modes

Ability to handle sensitive, high-severity work calmly

Use operational design, safety judgment, and automation insight to strengthen OpenAI’s critical harm programs and operating systems.

📌 Safety Operations Program Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 Candidate
📍 Winnipeg