OpenAI
Head of Enterprise Risk Management
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
- Published
- Oct 23, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
About the Team
The OpenAI Risk & Audit team is building an enterprise risk capability for a company operating at the frontier of AI. We help leaders identify, understand, and manage the risks that matter most while enabling responsible innovation and durable growth.
We are developing a modern enterprise risk management (ERM) program and the technology foundation that powers it. Our work connects risk strategy, governance, compliance, and assurance with high-quality data, automated workflows, continuous monitoring, and AI-enabled analysis.
We partner across Finance, Security, Legal, Engineering, Product, People, Operations, and Internal Audit, and provide clear reporting to senior leadership and the Board. We aim to make risk ownership practical, decision-useful, and embedded in how OpenAI builds and scales.
About the Role
As the Head of Enterprise Risk Management, you will help build and lead an integrated ERM program and the ERM platform that supports it. You will establish common risk language, governance, and decision processes while translating them into scalable systems, data products, and workflows.
You will own enterprise risk assessments, maintain a centralized risk register, develop risk appetite and key risk indicators, and help leaders evaluate significant changes such as new products, markets, partnerships, major systems, and strategic investments.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on leader who will build our ERM capability from the ground up, with the potential to build and lead a team over time. You will work with technical and business teams to connect source systems, improve data quality, automate evidence and control monitoring, and use AI to surface emerging risks and accelerate analysis.
You will also help create a strong risk culture, coordinate assurance across the three lines, and communicate complex issues with clarity and sound judgment. This is an opportunity to build a next-generation capability from the ground up.