The opportunity
About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust…
What they're looking for
- Have led architecture and multi-team execution for one or more: data-governance domains, such as metadata and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, or data-use controls.
- Can translate ambiguous policy, legal, security, and product requirements: into clear system boundaries, technical standards, phased roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Influence senior stakeholders and engineering teams without relying on formal: authority, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and build durable cross-functional alignment.
- Take end-to-end ownership of high-trust systems, including correctness,: scalability, auditability, operational resilience, and the developer and operator experience.
