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# Total Rewards Business Partner, APAC at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/e96c039a-0ecb-4aad-8e45-caa11524644c

## Job description

## About the Team

OpenAI’s Total Rewards team plays a critical role in attracting, rewarding, and retaining world-class talent in support of our mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The team designs and delivers compensation and benefits programs that are competitive, equitable, innovative, and scalable, while balancing global strategy, local market dynamics, employee experience, and long-term sustainability.

## About the Role

OpenAI is seeking an APAC Total Rewards Business Partner to lead and support compensation initiatives and provide regional benefits execution and operational support across the region as we continue to expand our global footprint. This role will serve as a key regional partner, helping translate OpenAI’s global Total Rewards strategy into programs and practices that reflect local market needs, regulatory requirements, and the evolving needs of our employees. In this role, you will partner closely with regional leadership, HR Business Partners, Recruiting, People Operations, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and external partners to design, implement, and manage compensation and benefits programs across APAC. You will operate as both a strategic advisor and hands-on practitioner, balancing global consistency with regional flexibility while maintaining a high bar for employee experience and operational excellence. This role is based in Singapore and we use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the Singapore office per week.

In this role, you will:

- Regional Total Rewards Partnership: Serve as a trusted Total Rewards advisor across APAC, providing strategic and practical guidance on compensation, benefits, market practices, and complex employee matters as the region scales.
- Compensation Strategy & Design: Support the development and evolution of base pay structures, incentive programs, equity frameworks, and other compensation programs to ensure competitiveness, internal consistency, and alignment with OpenAI’s global compensation philosophy.
- Benefits Execution & Operations: Partner with the International Benefits Lead to support the implementation and ongoing operation of APAC benefits programmes, aligned with agreed priorities and programme designs. Provide regional support for benefits rollouts, vendor coordination, employee communications and operational issue resolution, and surface local insights to inform programme decisions.
- Market Benchmarking & Insights: Lead compensation and benefits benchmarking and market analysis across APAC, translating external market developments, regulatory changes, and regional practices into thoughtful recommendations.
- Offer Strategy & Pay Decisions: Partner with Recruiting and HRBPs on offer design, compensation decisions, and approvals, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, global philosophy, and local market considerations.
- Program Management & Governance: Support the effective administration and governance of regional Total Rewards programs, ensuring strong controls, data integrity, regulatory compliance, and consistent application of policies and practices.
- Employee Experience & Communication: Develop clear, thoughtful communications that help employees and leaders understand and navigate Total Rewards programs, including compensation processes, benefits enrollment, and program changes.
- Operational Excellence & Automation: Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and scale Total Rewards processes and tools while strengthening data integrity, controls, and the overall operating model.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- Total Rewards Expertise: 10+ years of experience in compensation, benefits, or broader Total Rewards, with meaningful experience supporting programs across multiple APAC markets.
- Regional Knowledge: Strong understanding of APAC compensation and benefits practices, market dynamics, and regulatory considerations, with the ability to navigate differences across countries and cultures.
- Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data, market information, and business needs into clear recommendations.
- Communication & Influence: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and navigate nuanced Total Rewards discussions across different audiences and markets.
- Project Management & Execution: Strong organizational and project management capabilities, with the ability to independently manage multiple complex initiatives in a fast-moving environment.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively across HR, Recruiting, Finance, Legal, Payroll, Operations, and business leadership.
- Operational Mindset: A strong orientation toward scalable processes, automation, data integrity, and continuous improvement, with a willingness to work hands-on through complex problems.
- Adaptability: Comfort operating in ambiguity and building solutions in an evolving environment where business needs, markets, and organizational structures can change quickly.

## 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. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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