Program Manager, Automation and Optimization

Recruiting Optimization & Automation Program Manager

At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world's top talent in science, engineering, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our times.

Recruiting Operations is the backbone of this effort we design, scale, and continuously improve the systems that enable our recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators to deliver world-class candidate experiences while meeting the company's high hiring bar. We partner closely with our People Innovation Labs team, who build custom AI-first tooling, and with our Recruiting Enablement Program Manager, who ensures adoption and training.

This role will sit in Recruiting Operations, focusing on automation, workflow optimization, and experimentation inside recruiting so our team feels like they are truly working in the future. You'll collaborate with a peer Program Manager in this space, dividing ownership of the automation roadmap and scaling impact together.

As a Recruiting Optimization & Automation Program Manager, you will own and co-drive the automation roadmap for the recruiting function. You'll translate recruiter and coordinator pain points into automation opportunities, partner with People Innovation Labs to build complex solutions, and, when appropriate, directly build and ship lightweight workflows yourself.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of recruiting operations, product thinking, and hands-on building. You will ensure OpenAI's recruiting engine operates more efficiently and intelligently each quarter, with less manual friction and more leverage for recruiters.

You'll be responsible for :

• Co-owning the recruiting automation roadmap : Partner with your peer Program Manager to prioritize high-impact automation opportunities across sourcing, interviewing, offers, and onboarding.
• Piloting and scaling AI-first workflows : Run experiments with new tools and agents, measure ROI, and decide when to expand or sunset.
• Building when needed : Create lightweight automations and dashboards yourself (e.g., Airtable automations, Ashby workflows, Snowflake SQL queries, ChatGPT prompts).
• Bridging recruiting & People Innovation Labs : Translate recruiter needs into requirements for custom builds and ensure smooth integration into daily workflows.
• Streamlining processes across tools : Optimize usage of Ashby, Juicebox, Airtable, Snowflake, Brighthire, ChatGPT, and custom tooling through automations and connective workflows.
• Measuring & reporting impact : Define success metrics (hours saved, adoption rates, cycle time reductions) and report outcomes to Recruiting leadership.
• Driving adoption in partnership with Enablement : Ensure new workflows land well with recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators.
• Safeguarding compliance & quality : Ensure automations support legal, ethical, and organizational standards.

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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.