The opportunity
OpenAI’s People team is committed to hiring, engaging, and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
What you'll do
Advise and guide managers, HRBPs, and cross-functional partners through: complex or high-risk employee situations, including performance management, conflict resolution, reorganizations, and difficult conversations. You’ll bring emotional intelligence and principled thinking to every interaction.
Help shape the responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools within ER,: identifying opportunities to improve workflows, knowledge sharing, and service delivery while maintaining confidentiality, appropriate safeguards, and meaningful human review.
Help build scalable tools and frameworks that strengthen ER support across: the company and reduce over-reliance on formal processes or investigations.
Translate recurring ER challenges into scalable tools, guidance, operating: practices, and manager resources without creating unnecessary process or bureaucracy.
Act as a sounding board and escalation partner for workplace culture: concerns, manager-employee dynamics, and early signals of broader people issues.
Collaborate cross-functionally with HRBPs, Legal, cross-functional partners,: and leadership to ensure alignment on people decisions, organizational changes, and policy implementation.
What they're looking for
- Navigate ambiguity with a proactive, calm, creative, and solutions-oriented: mindset, helping to clarify issues and move toward resolution in a dynamic, evolving environment.
- Use data and insight to identify trends and advise on systemic solutions that: promote trust, engagement, and long-term cultural health.
- A Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in employee relations or: other People roles, ideally in high-growth, fast-paced, and highly dynamic environments. Experience in tech, research, or mission-driven orgs is a plus.
- A non-conventional mindset. You bring creative, outside-the-box thinking to: complex people issues, and you’re not bound by the way things have always been done. You know when structure helps, and when a bespoke approach is the better path.
