OpenAI

Trust & Safety

Analytics&AutomationLead,UserSafety&RiskOperations

$302–335k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations at OpenAI. Skills: Analytics, Automation, Risk operations, User safety. Lead and develop senior team. Set strategy and operating cadence”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve speed; Improve consistency; Improve scalability; Make safety operations faster; Make safety operations reliable; Make safety operations measurable; Make safety operations scalable

Industry & Context.

Trust & Safety
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Ambiguity; Complex tradeoffs

Eligibility Requirements

Exposure to sensitive content, Discretion required, Judgment required, Resilience required

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12+ years relevant experience, 4+ years people management experience, Highly technical for operations role, Comfortable with SQL, Comfortable with dashboards, Comfortable with data quality, Comfortable with classifier/eval concepts, Comfortable with automation design, Comfortable with practical AI tooling, Experience with LLMs, Experience with agentic workflows, Experience with Codex-like tools, Experience with internal AI platforms, Built systems improving operational work, Distinguish high-value automation, Design human-in-the-loop review, Design monitoring, Design quality controls, Design fallback mechanisms, Operational judgment, Understand complex workflows at scale, Communicate clearly and concisely, Operate with high agency, Create structure in ambiguity

Nice to Have

Familiarity with vendor operations, Familiarity with BPO training, Familiarity with QA, Familiarity with scaled review programs

What You'll Do.

Lead and develop senior team

Set strategy and operating cadence

Prioritize high-impact opportunities

Build systems for operational health

Build data infrastructure

Build backlog monitoring

Build quality measurement

Design workflow improvements

Implement automated triage

Implement automated routing

Implement automated prioritization

Implement signal enrichment

Implement case clustering

Implement review assistance

Implement reporting automation

Build and improve risk identification systems

Build and improve risk analysis systems

Build and improve risk signal sharing systems

Identify where AI can improve work

Design evaluation for AI

Design monitoring for AI

Design human review for AI

Design fallback paths for AI

Establish measurement frameworks

Establish quality frameworks

Establish golden sets

Establish sampling strategies

Establish reviewer calibration

Establish false-positive monitoring

Establish false-negative monitoring

Establish system-health metrics

Partner with operational leaders

Turn needs into scalable systems

Collaborate with partner teams

Translate insights into tools

Translate insights into processes

Translate insights into outcomes

Raise bar for technical judgment

Raise bar for written communication

Raise bar for prioritization

Raise bar for execution

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Partner teams; Operational leaders

Communication Scope

Written communication; Executive presentations

Process & Methodology

Prioritization, Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

ABOUT THE TEAM At OpenAI, our User Safety & Risk Operations (USRO) team helps protect our products and users from abuse, fraud, safety risks, and other forms of misuse. We operate at the front line of real-world safety and risk management, translating user and operational signals into timely decisions, effective interventions, and improvements to our systems. The Analytics & Automation team helps USRO operate more effectively and scale safely. The team builds automation, analytics, reporting, monitoring, and quality systems that improve how work is prioritized, reviewed, measured, and managed across the organization’s portfolio. Our work includes workflow automation, operational health dashboards, queue and case analysis, quality measurement, classifier and evaluation feedback loops, alerting, reporting infrastructure, and decision-support tools. We partner closely with operational teams as well as Product, Engineering, Product Policy, Safety, and Support to identify high-leverage opportunities and build practical systems that improve outcomes. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking an Analytics & Automation Lead to manage and grow a senior technical operations team responsible for building the analytics, automation, and quality systems that help User Safety and Risk Operations scale. This is a hands-on leadership role for a mission-oriented systems thinker: someone who can translate messy operational problems into practical, measurable solutions; guide senior technical and analytical ICs (Independent Contributors); prioritize across competing needs;, and build durable infrastructure and reusable capabilities that improve the performance of multiple operational teams. You will lead work across workflow automation, operational health analytics, quality and evaluation systems, emerging-risk signal infrastructure, dashboards and reporting, and data flywheel feedback loops.You http://loops.You will help determine where automation can meaningfully improve speed, consistency, and

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