Operations Enablement Program Manager, User Safety & Risk Operations
About The Position
The Global Safety Response Operations team provides 24/7 coverage for user safety, risk, and regulatory escalations across OpenAI’s products, handling the highest-priority cases that require human judgment and rapid response. The team operates as the core escalation and delivery arm of OpenAI’s safety operations, ensuring that our products remain safe and aligned with policy while enabling timely, empathetic, and consistent user support. The Global Safety Response Operations Lead is a hands-on team lead who both manages a regional Safety Response team and personally handles high-risk safety cases. This role combines frontline safety work with people leadership, operational ownership, and cross-functional coordination. You will lead a team of Safety Response Analysts who handle OpenAI’s most sensitive and high-impact cases, while also personally contributing to casework for complex, high-risk, or high-visibility issues. You will own the execution of high severity escalations in your region and ensure proper execution and communication to cross functional stakeholders You will be accountable for ensuring your region consistently meets utilization, quality, and SLA targets while serving as the operational interface with Product, Policy, Legal, Investigations, and regional stakeholders. This is a 24/7 global operation that requires flexibility to support rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays, as part of a leadership on-call model.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Trust & Safety, Risk Operations, Investigations, Fraud, Annotation, or platform integrity.
- 4+ years of people leadership or senior-level operational ownership.
- Strong decision-maker in ambiguous, high-risk environments, able to balance speed, accuracy, and defensibility when handling sensitive or high-impact cases.
- Ability to communicate complex safety and risk decisions clearly and credibly, whether writing escalation narratives, briefing Legal or Policy, or aligning Product and leadership during incidents.
- Ability to translate between frontline operations and strategic stakeholders, turning messy real-world cases into structured insights and turning policy or product direction into clear, executable guidance for your team.
- Skilled at influencing without authority, building trust with Product, Policy, Legal, Investigations, and regional partners to drive alignment and resolve ambiguity.
- Deep familiarity with content moderation, user safety, fraud, or developer risk frameworks, including the legal, policy, and technical considerations that shape enforcement.
- Proficiency in using data, tooling, and automation to improve quality, efficiency, and scale to not just measure performance, but to make better decisions.
- Comfortable leading in a 24/7, high-pressure operational environment, providing calm, credible leadership during incidents, spikes, and regulatory or reputational events.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coach a regional team of Safety Response Analysts, ensuring high performance, engagement, and consistent decision quality.
- Own regional operational outcomes, including utilization, SLA adherence, backlog health, and quality benchmarks.
- Handle and oversee the most complex and high-risk cases, serving as the first line of escalation and incident lead for your region.
- Contribute directly to frontline work (20–30%), including investigations, enforcement decisions, and regulatory or legal escalations.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Policy, Legal, Investigations, and local market teams to execute safety outcomes and manage risk.
- Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement, improving workflows, tools, automation, and escalation paths.
- Identify emerging risks and trends, translating frontline insights into actionable recommendations for policy, product, or enforcement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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