Recruiting Manager, Research & Residency

About the Team

In order to fulfill OpenAI’s ambitious technical mission, we must hire an incredibly talented, hard-working, mission-aligned, and diverse team. The Recruiting team at OpenAI works cross-functionally with all hiring managers throughout the organization to find and close incredible talent, provide an excellent candidate experience, and maintain our high hiring bar.

About the Role

As Recruiting Manager, you will lead recruiting strategy for the Research organizations of OpenAI. In this role, you will partner with executives and leaders throughout the company to scale our recruiting processes and initiatives to align with hiring needs. You will work across all of our research teams supporting them at levels of hiring from early stage careers through to industry leaders. You will lead and grow a high-performing team of sourcers, recruiters, and project managers to recruit and close the extraordinary talent we need to fulfill our mission.

We are looking for a seasoned leader who will establish the recruiting vision and strategy for our next growth stage and see them through to exemplary execution. The ideal candidate will combine extensive experience managing recruitment activities for high-performing tech organizations and a desire to build a recruiting organization that aligns with OpenAI’s mission and values. You will play a key role in championing those values and acting as a culture carrier and change agent, inspiring confidence, motivation, and engagement from the organization and developing strong collaborative relationships to drive extraordinary results. 

We are considering candidates to work out of our San Francisco HQ or remotely.

In this role, you will: 

• Craft the strategy and visions for recruitment activities. You will be responsible for optimizing the organization and practices of the team to drive results. You’ll define and iterate on recruiting goals and key performance indicators. 
• Manage a team of recruiters, sourcers, and project managers, building a best-in-class team that maintains a culture of high performance, growth mindset, radical ownership, collaboration, and inclusion that will enable our brilliant team to do their best work. 
• Partner with executives and hiring managers to develop a deep understanding of our business's current and future hiring needs and develop strategies to fulfill those needs.
• Be a recruiting advisor and partner to the leadership team and be an essential driver of recruiting excellence across the organization.
• Lead our Program hiring, which creates opportunities for high-potential candidates to join OpenAI and develop their careers in the AI space.
• Propose and run experiments to find novel techniques and solutions for challenging recruiting problems.
• Ensure that we offer a best-in-class candidate experience.

We’re looking for a blend of:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in recruiting and 3+ years experience in a leadership or management position
• Demonstrable success leading strategy and driving execution to hire top-tier talent for a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup, including hiring talent in extremely niche talent markets
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to influence management and contributors at all levels of the organization and across functions
• A proactive leader with a strong track record in building high-functioning recruiting organizations
• Exemplary analytical, verbal / written communication, and interpersonal skills

You might thrive in this role if you: 

• Are a strategist. You deeply understand recruiting best practices and have experience advocating for and implementing those practices, but you know when and how to customize practices to fit our organization’s needs best. You think and plan forward on the order of years.
• Are a people-person. You are energized by interacting with people and build deep cooperative relationships readily. You are inspired by helping people achieve their best work and enjoy coaching and developing others. You are deeply empathetic and understand how to incentivize people toward desired behaviors based on their unique motivations. 
• Are a builder and a completionist. You not only embrace the opportunity to impact how a company operates directly, but you also revel in it. An organization relies on the quality of its foundation, and your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up and executing them with precision to completion. 
• Are excited by new challenges. You don’t have the answers to every question up front, but the process of solving them invigorates you. Bespoke issues requiring multidimensional knowledge excite you. You’re willing to experiment with new solutions.
• Care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusion. You understand why investing in DEI is a good business decision and why it’s vitally important to developing safe and universally beneficial AGI.
• Passion or deep curiosity in technology and artificial intelligence.

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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. 

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

The annual salary range for this role is $184,000 – $285,000. Our total compensation also includes generous equity in OpenAI and benefits.

Benefits and Perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

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 other legally protected statuses. 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 [email protected].