About the position
The Product Policy team is responsible for the development, implementation, enforcement, and communication of the policies that govern use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, GPTs, the GPT store, Sora, and the OpenAI API. As a member of this team, you will be instrumental in developing policy approaches to best enable both innovative and responsible use of AI so that our groundbreaking technologies are truly used to benefit all people. As a member of the Product Policy team, you will help shape OpenAI’s approach to privacy, including a major initiative focused on AI data rights. You’ll bring strong instincts for policy development and a deep understanding of how technical systems intersect with evolving norms, legal frameworks, and societal expectations. This role is part of a broader portfolio of strategic and cross-cutting workstreams that require navigating ambiguity and turning complex inputs into principled, actionable guidance.
Responsibilities
- Provide policy input on high-priority privacy initiatives, including OpenAI’s work on AI data rights and data minimization.
- Collaborate with legal, research, comms, and product counterparts to build durable frameworks that address novel privacy risks in emerging model capabilities and deployments.
- Drive special projects that cut across traditional privacy domains—such as consent, transparency, and user controls.
- Support the development of incident response protocols, audit practices, and other scalable approaches to privacy risk management.
Requirements
- 7+ years working on privacy, data protection, or technology policy issues, ideally including experience with AI or emerging technology.
- Understanding of how government, enterprise, and other stakeholders think about privacy issues.
- Fluency in translating complex privacy concepts like consent, data minimization, transparency, and user controls into implementable guidance.
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives alike.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy going 0 to 1.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to new employees.
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
