OpenAI is hiring a Senior HRBP, Engineering & Product

OpenAI is looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to support our Engineering and Product teams, with a primary focus on the Infrastructure organization and Platform team. This individual contributor role mixes strategic advising with hands-on support to design systems, coach managers, and drive organizational decisions.

What You'll Do

• Partner closely with leaders to design team structures, talent plans, and ways of working that enable strong performance and sustainable growth.
• Partner with fellow HRBPs, COEs, and cross-functional leaders to create an employee experience rooted in humanity, humility, and impact.
• Strengthen Contributions & Impact (performance), engagement, and retention processes—building solutions that are lightweight, scalable, and aligned with how OpenAI operates.
• Offer candid, actionable feedback and help managers do the same for their teams, especially in complex or sensitive moments.
• Stay close to the business to identify challenges early, diagnose root causes, and deliver solutions that drive lasting impact—updating quickly as priorities shift.
• Drive organizational changes with empathy, clarity, and operational rigor, finding creative paths forward when playbooks don’t exist.

What We're Looking For

• 7–10+ years of HR experience.
• At least 5 years as an HR Business Partner supporting leaders in high-growth or complex environments.
• Strategic Partnering: Can step back to see the big picture, help leaders make tough trade-offs, and move quickly with the business when priorities shift.
• Coaches who create impact: A steady partner to managers and leaders, skilled at giving candid feedback with care and building leadership muscle across teams.
• Scrappy Problem Solving: Uses sound judgment to diagnose organizational challenges, experiment with creative solutions, and find a way forward without a playbook.
• Change Leadership with calm & clarity: Brings steadiness, empathy, and influence in moments of ambiguity or transition, guiding teams toward better outcomes.
• Operates with high integrity: Known for reliability, discretion, and fairness—earning trust when the stakes are high and decisions matter most.

Team & Environment

This is an individual contributor role reporting to an HRBP Lead. You will support teams across Engineering and Product, partnering most closely with the Infrastructure organization and Platform team.

Benefits & Compensation

• Relocation support to new employees.
• Open-plan offices with height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths.
• Well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks.
• Three in-house prepared meals daily.
• Private outdoor space.
• Nap rooms.
• Private bike storage.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco.

OpenAI is 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.