Senior People (HR) Compliance Manager

About This Team

OpenAI’s People team is committed to hiring, engaging, and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The Global Employee Relations, Employment Investigations, and People Standards team brings together expertise in employee relations, workplace investigations, and people policy and compliance. We play a critical role in shaping how OpenAI supports its people through complexity, growth, and change.

Our team guides and supports the company through some of its most nuanced and high-impact people challenges. We operate with deep context and care, balancing trust, judgment, and creativity in every situation. We don’t default to predefined frameworks. Instead, we take a principled yet flexible approach, designing thoughtful, tailored solutions that reflect our values, the needs of our employees, and the unique pace of OpenAI.

About This Role
We’re seeking a Senior People Compliance Manager to support the design, execution, and continuous improvement of OpenAI’s global People compliance programs. Reporting to the Head of People Standards & Compliance, this role will lead cross-functional initiatives, analyze policy and regulatory impacts, and help operationalize people processes that meet evolving legal requirements and internal standards and align with OpenAI’s goals and values. This is a highly collaborative and detail-oriented position that will work closely with Legal, People, Finance, and other internal teams to ensure our programs are effective, auditable, and scalable. This role reports to the Head of People Compliance.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage project plans for global People compliance initiatives, coordinating timelines, resources, and execution across stakeholders.

• Analyze current and upcoming employment laws (e.g., FLSA, ADA, FMLA, GDPR) to assess impact on policies and processes; support in drafting updates or new policies as needed.

• Support People risk assessments, audits, and internal reviews; identify gaps and help implement mitigation strategies.

• Create and maintain documentation frameworks and matrices that ensure our policies and practices are compliant, accessible, and consistently applied across regions.

• Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Global Mobility, Internal Audit, Recruiting and other teams to ensure operational compliance related to employee records, immigration, classification, and global expansion.

• Build and track key compliance and audit metrics, prepare dashboards and reporting for leadership visibility, and make data-informed recommendations.

• Contribute to the development and rollout of employee training materials and process documentation that support compliance awareness and adherence and track administration of such training.

• Support periodic program reviews and audits to assess effectiveness and identify areas for improvements to further promote a culture of compliance.

• Assist in the coordination of external audits, regulatory reviews, or legal requests related to People practices and records and support mandatory government filings.

• Maintain strong knowledge of relevant global employment legislation, staying current on new developments and contributing to scenario planning and risk preparedness.

• Experience with executing against global compliance goals and supporting office global expansion strongly preferred.

• Strategic thinker with a proactive and pragmatic approach to addressing compliance issues.

We're Seeking:

• 10+ years of experience in program management, compliance, People operations, or risk/audit functions—preferably in fast-scaling, global environments.

• A J.D. and prior employment law experience preferred.

• Deep familiarity with U.S. and international employment law concepts and People compliance practices.

• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder programs with legal, People Team, or operational complexity.

• Proven ability to manage documentation, audit trails, and operational rigor in a dynamic environment.

• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to independently manage multiple priorities.

• Analytical mindset with experience building reports, metrics, or dashboards to track performance and risk.

• Strong written communication skills, particularly for policies, project summaries, and audit documentation.

• A calm, discreet, and ethical approach to sensitive data and interpersonal dynamics.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office and we aren't considering remote applications. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

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. 

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