Head of Enterprise Risk ManagementActive$216K–$295K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

  • Establish key risk indicators, continuous-monitoring capabilities, and: executive dashboards that translate complex data into clear signals, trends, and actions.

  • Enable risk-informed change governance for new products, markets,: partnerships, acquisitions, major systems, and other high-impact initiatives.

  • 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.

  • Define the strategy and roadmap for a modern ERM platform that will connect: with systems across the enterprise including identity, finance, HR, ticketing, code, and others through reliable integrations and shared data models.

What they're looking for

  • Apply automation, policy-as-code, data analytics, and AI-assisted workflows: to evidence collection, control monitoring, issue management, risk analysis, and audit or regulatory responses.
  • Coordinate risk activities across Finance, Security, Legal, Compliance,: Engineering, Operations, and Internal Audit, clarifying ownership and reducing duplication across the three lines of defense.
  • 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.
  • + 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.
Head of Enterprise Risk Management at OpenAI | Role Match