OpenAI is looking for a Product Policy - Privacy Expert to help shape its approach to privacy, including a major initiative focused on AI data rights. You will develop policy approaches to enable innovative and responsible use of AI, translating complex inputs into principled, actionable guidance for our teams.
What You'll Do
- Provide policy input on high-priority privacy initiatives, including OpenAI's work on AI data rights and data minimization.
- Translate evolving privacy expectations into implementable guidance for product and research teams.
- Collaborate with legal, research, comms, and product counterparts to build durable frameworks for novel privacy risks.
- Drive special projects that cut across traditional privacy domains like consent, transparency, and user controls.
- Support the development of incident response protocols, audit practices, and scalable privacy risk management approaches.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years working on privacy, data protection, or technology policy issues.
- Deep privacy expertise and experience translating that knowledge into clear, implementable policies.
- Experience translating complex privacy concepts like consent, data minimization, transparency, and user controls into implementable guidance.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives.
- Comfortable working across legal, product, research, and comms teams to align on risk posture and mitigation strategies.
- Ability to operate effectively in highly cross-functional, 0→1 environments.
- Experience driving consensus, setting direction amid uncertainty, and adapting to a rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI or emerging technology.
Team & Environment
This role is a member of the Product Policy team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Relocation assistance.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in San Francisco, CA.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
