Lead Recruiter, Product Management

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, our Recruiting team’s focus is to build talent-dense, high-impact teams that are aligned with OpenAI’s cultural values and mission. Our vision is to pioneer the future of recruiting and connect brilliant people with the transformative potential of AI.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Lead Recruiter to own and scale recruiting for all product management roles at OpenAI. You’ll build the foundation for how we attract, evaluate, and hire world-class PM talent, partnering closely with senior product leaders to shape our hiring strategy and ensure an exceptional candidate experience.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Lead recruiting for all Product Management roles, from role definition through to offer close.

• Partner directly with product and executive leaders to deeply understand organizational needs and develop effective, data-driven recruiting strategies.

• Design and evolve scalable recruiting processes and best practices that raise the bar for speed, quality, and fairness.

• Drive offer strategy and execution, with a proven ability to close leadership-level and hard-to-hire talent in highly competitive markets.

• Mentor and develop recruiters and sourcers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Act as a visible ambassador of OpenAI within the broader product management community, building strong external relationships.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 12+ years of recruiting experience, with deep expertise in product management, technical, and leadership hiring.

• Demonstrated success closing senior and executive-level candidates in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders with credibility and confidence.

• Comfort and effectiveness operating in scrappy, high-velocity, and ambiguous environments, creating structure and clarity amid rapid change.

• Proven ability to build, scale, and optimize recruiting processes, teams, and systems.

• Deep commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring practices.

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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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