Senior M&A People Partner

OpenAI • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

About OpenAI OpenAI is scaling rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Ensuring that acquired teams feel aligned, supported, and able to contribute quickly is essential to sustaining our performance and preserving our culture. About This Role You will lead the People diligence and integration strategy for acquired teams joining OpenAI. This ensures that new teammates understand our mission, leadership principles, and how we operate in a high velocity, high-trust environment. You will partner closely with Corp Dev, Legal, People team partners, and functional leaders across the business to create a consistent and thoughtful experience from diligence through long-term success. This role sits within the People Standards team and reports to the Head of Global Employee Relations and People Standards. As our team grows, team alignment may evolve as our People organization scales.

Requirements

• 7+ years in People Ops, HRBP partnership, M&A and Talent Integration, or org transformation.
• Experience influencing across senior technical leaders, C-suite, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Judgment and confidentiality navigating sensitive people transitions and leadership decisions.
• Deep empathy and advocacy for the employee experience — especially through change.

Responsibilities

• Co-design diligence and Integration People strategy with HRBPs, Recruiting, Corp Dev, Legal, and functional leaders — anchored in performance expectations and culture.
• Ensure acquired employees are accurately onboarded into our systems and tools to provide a positive onboarding experience.
• Identify and surface risks around culture, compensation philosophy and expectations, and mission alignment.
• Ensure that retained teams have clarity on roles, reporting structures, decision-making norms, and communication channels.
• Lead leadership alignment and change management strategies to ensure acquired employees feel trust, belonging, and purpose.
• Create repeatable integration models (org mapping, onboarding, performance frameworks, retention monitoring, systems cutover).
• Build communications and leader enablement materials that foster transparency and reduce ambiguity during transitions.
• Track engagement, retention, and performance signals to inform integration strategy over 6–12 months post-close.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees