Extended Workforce Program Manager

OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.

Within Finance, the Procurement team serves as a trusted advisor to the business, optimizing investments, securing essential resources, and enabling OpenAI’s mission through efficient and effective procurement practices.

The Extended Workforce team helps OpenAI access specialized and flexible talent while creating a consistent, compliant, and high-quality experience for hiring managers, workers, vendors, and internal partners. As part of an AI-native organization, we are also rethinking how extended workforce programs should operate, using AI, automation, data, and new ways of working to reduce friction, improve decision-making, and build more scalable workforce solutions. Our goal is not simply to modernize traditional contingent workforce practices, but to help define what best-in-class extended workforce management looks like in an AI-first company.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Extended Workforce Program Manager to operate and continuously improve key elements of OpenAI’s extended workforce program.

Reporting to the Head of Extended Workforce, you will be a trusted partner responsible for translating program priorities into clear plans, scalable solutions, and measurable outcomes. This is an individual contributor role with significant cross-functional ownership and influence. You will take ownership of complex workstreams, solve ambiguous operational challenges, and partner closely with our Extended Workforce Operations team, Global Compliance Lead, and cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen the systems, workflows, and partnerships that enable the program to scale globally.

While operational excellence is at the heart of this role, we are equally excited about what comes next. We believe AI presents an opportunity to fundamentally rethink how extended workforce programs operate. We are looking for someone who enjoys challenging conventional thinking, experimenting with new ideas, and helping build a more intelligent, automated, and scalable operating model for the future.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days per week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Partner with the Head of Extended Workforce to set direction for assigned workstreams, then own their end-to-end execution by translating priorities into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.