We are seeking an experienced and highly organized Recruiting Events Program Manager to build this function from the ground up and shape how top talent experiences OpenAI. This person will be a crucial member of the Recruiting Programs team, strategizing high-impact events at scale across our offices while setting the bar for what world-class candidate engagement looks and feels like. As a Recruiting Events Program Manager, you are detail-obsessed, resourceful, and thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment. You’re an exceptional communicator with an operational mindset—able to execute flawlessly while thinking strategically about how events ladder up to broader hiring goals. In this role, you will partner closely with Recruiting leadership and the Global Events team to develop a top-of-funnel strategy, determining which events, channels, and experiences most effectively attract top-tier talent and how to sustain momentum in key communities. You’ll measure progress, analyze hiring trends, and capture candidate sentiment and feedback through the experiences you build. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Events, Design, Procurement, Communications, Workplace, and Marketing, as well as critical support partners including catering, AV, facilities, and corporate security. You are comfortable navigating a wide range of operational tools (Jira, Google Workspace, Notion, Airtable) This role partners closely with the Global Events team to define the strategic vision, look, and feel of select recruiting programs, ensuring alignment with OpenAI’s business and hiring priorities. You will set a clear north star for each experience — shaping goals, audience, content, executive presence, and success metrics — and translate recruiting needs into thoughtful, high-impact event concepts. While the Events team owns large-scale production and logistics, you will lead strategy and lighter-touch planning for smaller initiatives like intimate dinners, panels, and community moments. This is a strategy and program leadership role — not an events operations role — requiring strong collaboration, comfort influencing without owning every detail, and the ability to guide execution through clear vision, alignment, and partnership. This role is based onsite in San Francisco, CA and requires being in-office up to 5 days per week, with occasional evening work as needed.