Product Policy - Privacy Expert

About the Team

The Product Policy team is responsible for the development, implementation, enforcement, and communication of the policies that govern use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, GPTs, the GPT store, Sora, and the OpenAI API. As a member of this team, you will be instrumental in developing policy approaches to best enable both innovative and responsible use of AI so that our groundbreaking technologies are truly used to benefit all people.

About the Role

As a member of the Product Policy team, you will help shape OpenAI’s approach to privacy, including a major initiative focused on AI data rights. You’ll bring strong instincts for policy development and a deep understanding of how technical systems intersect with evolving norms, legal frameworks, and societal expectations. This role is part of a broader portfolio of strategic and cross-cutting workstreams that require navigating ambiguity and turning complex inputs into principled, actionable guidance.

We’re looking for people with deep privacy expertise and experience translating that knowledge into clear, implementable policies and new frameworks for privacy in the AI era. Ideal candidates are comfortable working across legal, product, research, and comms teams to align on risk posture and mitigation strategies, and can operate effectively in highly cross-functional, 0→1 environments. Experience driving consensus, setting direction amid uncertainty, and adapting to a rapidly evolving AI landscape is key.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Provide policy input on high-priority privacy initiatives, including OpenAI’s work on AI data rights and data minimization, with a focus on translating evolving privacy expectations into implementable guidance for product and research teams.

• Collaborate with legal, research, comms, and product counterparts to build durable frameworks that address novel privacy risks in emerging model capabilities and deployments.

• Drive special projects that cut across traditional privacy domains—such as consent, transparency, and user controls—and require creative, principled policy thinking.

• Support the development of incident response protocols, audit practices, and other scalable approaches to privacy risk management.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 7+ years working on privacy, data protection, or technology policy issues, ideally including experience with AI or emerging technology.

• Have an understanding of how government, enterprise, and other stakeholders think about privacy issues.

• Are fluent in translating complex privacy concepts like consent, data minimization, transparency, and user controls, into implementable guidance.

• Possess excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives alike

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy going 0 to 1

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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