OpenAI
Head of Enterprise Risk Management
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- You will establish common risk language, governance, and decision processes while translating them into scalable systems, data products, and workflows.
- This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of risk, operations, and technology.
- You will work with technical and business teams to connect source systems, improve data quality, automate evidence and control monitoring, and use AI to surface emerging risks and accelerate analysis.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve OpenAI's enterprise risk management framework, including risk taxonomy, governance standards, risk appetite, escalation thresholds, and mitigation expectations.
- Lead enterprise risk assessments and maintain a centralized, decision-useful risk register that reflects strategic, financial, operational, technology, security, compliance, and emerging risks.
- Lead effective governance forums working cross-functionally with key partners such as Compliance, Finance, Security and others, and prepare concise reporting for senior leadership and the Board.
- Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team, strengthen first-line ownership, and foster a culture of practical risk management, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience across enterprise or operational risk, compliance, internal audit, security governance, finance, or related fields, including significant experience leading ERM or GRC programs.
- A relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- credentials such as CIA, CPA, CISA, CRMA, CRM, or an advanced business, legal, or technical degree are valued.
- You might thrive in this role if you have:
Nice to have
- Technical fluency with GRC platforms, data architecture, APIs, system integrations, cloud environments, and automated workflows
- experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, or policy-as-code is a plus.
Benefits
- A track record of building or materially scaling an enterprise risk program in a fast-growing, technology-driven, or otherwise complex global organization.
Company info
- The OpenAI Risk & Audit team is building an enterprise risk capability for a company operating at the frontier of AI.
- We help leaders identify, understand, and manage the risks that matter most while enabling responsible innovation and durable growth.
- We are developing a modern enterprise risk management (ERM) program and the technology foundation that powers it.
- Our work connects risk strategy, governance, compliance, and assurance with high-quality data, automated workflows, continuous monitoring, and AI-enabled analysis.
- We partner across Finance, Security, Legal, Engineering, Product, People, Operations, and Internal Audit, and provide clear reporting to senior leadership and the Board.
- We aim to make risk ownership practical, decision-useful, and embedded in how OpenAI builds and scales.
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