OpenAI
Product Policy
ProductPolicy,BiosecurityPolicyManager
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“Product Policy, Biosecurity Policy Manager at OpenAI. Skills: Biosecurity policy, Life sciences, Product policy, Risk management. Provide biosecurity policy advice. Provide life sciences policy advice”
Industry & Context.
Abuse prevention; Risk assessment; Problem solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years experience in biosecurity, 7+ years experience in biosafety, 7+ years experience in life sciences R&D, 7+ years experience in synthetic biology, 7+ years experience in molecular biology, 7+ years experience in computational biology, 7+ years experience in public health, 7+ years experience in biodefense, 7+ years experience in biological risk management, 7+ years experience in product policy, 7+ years experience in trust and safety, 7+ years experience in abuse investigations, Technical fluency in biological domains, Technical fluency in biosecurity domains, Understand modern biological risk landscape, Understand how legitimate biological research is conducted, Understand how institutions govern sensitive work, Understand where AI systems may create risk, Experience turning complex risk into rules, Experience turning complex risk into standards, Experience turning complex risk into processes, Experience turning complex risk into decisions, Strong communication skills
Nice to Have
Depth in one or more relevant domains, Ability to reason across adjacent areas
What You'll Do.
Provide biosecurity policy advice
Provide life sciences policy advice
Evaluate bio-relevant product launches
Evaluate model capabilities
Translate biological misuse risk
Define scalable policy frameworks
Develop operationalizable standards
Develop enforcement protocols
Develop escalation paths
Partner with teams on risk decisions
Design trusted access frameworks
Support development of threat models
Support development of misuse trajectories
Support development of taxonomy updates
Support development of review workflows
Support development of measurement approaches
Use production signals to improve policy
Use evals to improve policy
Use red-team findings to improve policy
Use user feedback to improve policy
Use operational data to improve policy
Engage with life sciences organizations
Engage with biosecurity experts
Engage with public health institutions
Develop partnership-informed biosecurity approach
Work with external experts
Work with public health institutions
Work with life sciences organizations
Identify emerging risks
Strengthen safe adoption practices
Support societal resilience
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Technical teams; Product teams; Engineering teams; Research teams; Safety teams; Security teams; Legal teams; Operations teams; Global affairs teams; Go-to-market teams; Preparedness teams; Safety systems teams; Integrity teams; User operations teams; I2 teams; Communications teams; External stakeholders
Communication Scope
Communication skills
Process & Methodology
Roadmap, Launch decisions
Full Job Description
About the Team The Product Policy team develops, implements, enforces, and communicates the policies that govern use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, Codex, GPTs, and the OpenAI API. This biosecurity-focused role will help define how OpenAI enables legitimate life sciences, biomedical, and public health work while reducing the risk that our products are misused to create biological harm. This role sits at the intersection of AI capability, life sciences practice, biosecurity, biosafety, and abuse prevention: helping researchers, institutions, and other legitimate users benefit from OpenAI’s tools while setting clear boundaries against activity that could enable catastrophic biological misuse or other harmful bio-related outcomes. About the Role As a Product Policy Manager specializing in Biosecurity, you will combine deep biological, biosecurity, and policy judgment to guide how OpenAI evaluates, launches, and governs capabilities relevant to biology and the life sciences. You will work closely with product, engineering, research, safety, security, legal, operations, global affairs, and go-to-market teams to translate complex biological risk into practical product policy, implementation standards, access criteria, enforcement guidance, and launch decisions. The role requires understanding both sides of the bio equation: how legitimate researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, and life sciences organizations use AI to advance beneficial work, and how malicious or irresponsible actors may attempt to misuse AI systems to lower barriers to harmful biological activity. Strong candidates may bring depth in one or more relevant domains, such as biosecurity, biosafety, synthetic biology, molecular biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, public health, biodefense, biological risk management, sequence screening, lab automation, institutional research governance, or life sciences R&D — along with the ability to reason across adjacent areas. You do n
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