Trust & Safety Operations Lead

About the Team

At OpenAI, our Trust & Safety operations are central to protecting OpenAI’s platform and users from abuse. We serve a diverse customer base, ranging from individual users and early-stage startups to global enterprises, across ChatGPT and our API (and beyond!). Operating within our Support organization, our Trust & Safety Operations team safeguards the platform and its users by detecting, investigating, and mitigating risks across content, accounts, fraud, and emerging threats. The team works closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, Go To Market and Operations teams to ensure we're delivering the best possible experience to our users at scale

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead, Global Safety Response Operations to lead our core safety delivery team. In this role, you will oversee daily operations, manage vendor and internal workflows, ensure operational excellence, and build out the team’s future incident response function.

You will work closely with Policy, Legal, Integrity, and GTM teams to ensure that safety workflows are executed accurately, efficiently, and globally. Over time, you will lead the team in evolving from day-to-day operations to a fully scaled 24/7 global response function.

Please note: This role may involve handling sensitive content, including material that may be highly confidential, sexual, violent, or otherwise disturbing.

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:

• Lead and develop a team of internal safety analysts and vendor partners across global regions (AMER, EMEA, APAC).

• Oversee execution of safety workflows, including vendor/internal escalations, model labeling, and quality review programs.

• Serve as point of escalation for high-priority safety incidents, coordinating with Legal, Product, Policy, and Vendor Ops.

• Build and maintain operational playbooks, runbooks, and incident management processes to ensure rapid, high-quality response.

• Partner with Vendor Operations to optimize coverage, training, and performance management for external teams.

• Define and track operational metrics, SLAs, and KPIs to ensure operational excellence and identify process improvements.

• Drive initiatives to increase automation, efficiency, and data-driven insights in safety operations.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years in Trust & Safety, Risk Operations, or Incident Response, including 3+ years of people management experience.

• Bring proven experience leading multi-regional teams and vendor operations in a tech or online platform environment.

• Are comfortable triaging complex escalations and coordinating across legal, engineering, and operations functions.

• Have a track record of process improvement and using data to drive operational decisions.

• Thrive in ambiguous, high-stakes environments and can balance immediate response with long-term operational maturity.

• Maintain a collaborative, humble approach and a strong bias for action.

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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