--- title: 'Compliance Program Manager — Regulatory Compliance at OpenAI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/compliance-program-manager-regulatory-compliance-openai-san-francisco-gxpppm1exqmz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Compliance Program Manager — Regulatory Compliance at OpenAI - **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $216k–$240k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/5f094405-1b54-419b-88b2-df1d7eb16af0 ## Job description ## About the team Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) builds compliance programs and provides assurance for OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We combine technical understanding with practical operations to reduce risk, support product and research teams, and produce reliable evidence of how our controls work. ## About the role As a Regulatory Compliance Program Manager, you will build and operate programs that turn regulatory requirements into clear responsibilities, effective processes, and evidence that can withstand external scrutiny. Your work will focus on AI safety/security and content moderation, with privacy operations as an adjacent area. You will partner with Legal and the teams that build and operate our products to scope the work, maintain accurate control narratives, prepare regulatory responses, and lead external assessments for your assigned portfolio. You should be comfortable owning delivery, explaining tradeoffs, and changing your recommendation when the evidence changes. Success means controls have accountable owners, evidence stays current, and teams can respond accurately without repeatedly rebuilding the same work. The initial portfolio and expectations will be agreed with the hiring manager. In this role, you will: - Lead an agreed portfolio of AI safety/security and content-compliance work, including programs associated with the EU AI Act, DSA, OSA, and SB 53, with Legal and relevant experts confirming applicable requirements. - Translate requirements into scoped programs, operating processes, control and evidence responsibilities, milestones, and clear escalation paths. - Build and maintain accurate control narratives and traceable evidence for regulatory requests, reporting, audits, and assessments. - Lead preparation and delivery for external compliance assessments, coordinate the responsible teams, and track gaps through verified resolution or an explicitly owned decision. - Prioritize the work that materially improves compliance outcomes and reduces risk; explain what should proceed, change, or wait and why. - Develop evidence-backed recommendations with Legal, Product, Security, Safety, Integrity, Privacy, and other functional teams. Obtain decisions from the authorized owners for legal interpretation, external representations, and risk acceptance. - Improve operational workflows for content and privacy compliance while keeping implementation and operation of controls with the appropriate functional owners. - Simplify and automate repeated administrative work, test the results, and verify that the improvement is adopted and produces accurate, reliable outputs. - Learn the GRC security-control environment and participate in the team’s on-call rotation, with scope and expectations explained during the hiring process. - Communicate clearly, surface uncertainty early, incorporate feedback, and develop the domain knowledge needed for the next priority. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have practical experience building and operating AI safety/security and content-moderation programs, and can explain your own decisions, contribution, and results. - Have used agentic tooling to automate and improve to scaled processes - Understand relevant technical concepts across model evaluation, training and release, safety controls, content moderation, and post-launch operations, and can explain where specialist input is needed. - Have a strong understanding of relevant AI safety, content, and privacy requirements, including the EU AI Act, DSA, OSA, and SB 53, and experience translating them into operating processes and controls with domain experts and Legal. - Have led regulatory responses and external compliance audits, and can distinguish supported claims from evidence gaps. - Have delivered complex cross-functional programs, scoped practical first increments, and adapted priorities when constraints changed. - Have improved or automated an operational workflow and verified its accuracy, usefulness, and ongoing ownership. - Can maintain precise records, navigate technical/compliance documentation and contract language, follow through on commitments, and judge what to resolve directly or escalate. - Communicate clearly in writing and conversation with technical teams, Legal, leadership, and external stakeholders; explain evidence, uncertainty, recommendations, and tradeoffs. - Work constructively through disagreement, learn from feedback, and take responsibility for outcomes. Privacy program-management experience is a plus. ## 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. For additional information, please see [OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) 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. ## About OpenAI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. - **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO. - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment - **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models) - **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity. ## Products & Services - **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows. - **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.). - **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions. - **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system. - **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials. - **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. - **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI. - **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent. - **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference. - **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products. ## Strategic Focus - **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance). - **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses. - **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026). - **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus. - **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget. - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI. - **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications. ## Sources 1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/) 2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/) 3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search) 4. 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