What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Health and Safety, Program Manager position at OpenAI?
About The Team
The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team partners across the company to enable safe, compliant, and scalable operations as our work, facilities, and technologies grow globally. We work closely with Engineering, Workplace, Operations, Security, IT, and external partners to design practical safety programs that support innovation while protecting people.
Our approach emphasizes risk-based decision making, thoughtful program design, and strong cross-functional collaboration. We focus on building systems that scale, meet regulatory expectations, and are easy for teams to adopt in fast-moving environments.
About The Role
We are looking for an EHS Program Manager to strengthen and scale safety programs across OpenAI’s corporate office environments. This role focuses on workplace safety, ergonomics, business continuity readiness, emergency preparedness, regulatory compliance, and employee well-being across a fast-growing, highly dynamic organization.
You will partner closely with Workplace, Corporate Security, HR, Real Estate, and international site leads to implement consistent safety frameworks that meet local regulatory requirements while aligning with global EHS principles.
This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate across multiple regulatory frameworks, and a practical approach to building programs that scale with the organization.
In This Role You Will
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation Range: $158K - $175K
The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team partners across the company to enable safe, compliant, and scalable operations as our work, facilities, and technologies grow globally. We work closely with Engineering, Workplace, Operations, Security, IT, and external partners to design practical safety programs that support innovation while protecting people.
Our approach emphasizes risk-based decision making, thoughtful program design, and strong cross-functional collaboration. We focus on building systems that scale, meet regulatory expectations, and are easy for teams to adopt in fast-moving environments.
About The Role
We are looking for an EHS Program Manager to strengthen and scale safety programs across OpenAI’s corporate office environments. This role focuses on workplace safety, ergonomics, business continuity readiness, emergency preparedness, regulatory compliance, and employee well-being across a fast-growing, highly dynamic organization.
You will partner closely with Workplace, Corporate Security, HR, Real Estate, and international site leads to implement consistent safety frameworks that meet local regulatory requirements while aligning with global EHS principles.
This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate across multiple regulatory frameworks, and a practical approach to building programs that scale with the organization.
In This Role You Will
- Leading day-to-day EHS programs for corporate office environments across multiple locations
- Conducting site inspections, job hazard analyses, and risk assessments while driving corrective actions to closure
- Ensuring compliance with OSHA, Cal/OSHA, international regulations, fire codes, and local authorities
- Developing and maintaining emergency preparedness programs, evacuation plans, business continuity templates, and annual drills
- Supporting emergency response teams, evacuation wardens, and global readiness assessments
- Managing and evolving the global ergonomics program, including assessments, equipment guidance, and risk trending
- Supporting incident reporting, investigations, regulatory tracking, and required compliance documentation and metrics
- Partnering cross-functionally with Workplace, Corporate Security, Legal, HR, and Real Estate on safety, emergency readiness, and employee well-being initiatives
- 5–8 years of Environmental, Health & Safety experience in corporate, tech, or multi-site environments
- Experience supporting safety programs across multiple locations or international operations
- Strong experience conducting workplace risk assessments and implementing practical safety controls
- Familiarity with OSHA, Cal/OSHA, and international safety regulations applicable to corporate office environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
- Ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-growing organization
- Willingness to travel as needed (approximately 10–20%)
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation Range: $158K - $175K
Salary : $158,000 - $175,000