Program Manager, US & Canada Policy and Partnerships

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Achieving this goal requires more than cutting-edge research-it also demands deep, durable engagement with the policymakers, communities, institutions, and partners shaping the future of AI and the infrastructure that supports it.

The Global Affairs team leads this engagement, and the US & Canada Policy and Partnerships team focuses on our work in the US and Canada at the federal, provincial, and state levels. We build trusted relationships with public officials, regulators, community stakeholders and partners to help inform our work. By bringing external insights into OpenAI-and translating OpenAI's priorities outward-we help advance thoughtful regulation, responsible standards, and governance frameworks that promote the safe and beneficial development and deployment of AI technologies.

We're looking for a highly organized, proactive, and mission-driven Program Manager to join the US & Canada Policy and Partnerships Team within Global Affairs. This role will facilitate and enable the operational effectiveness of a fast-moving portfolio spanning US federal and state policy, Canada policy, and partnerships / external affairs workstreams.

You will sit at the center of a highly cross-functional environment and support program execution across parallel policy campaigns, stakeholder engagements, briefings, convenings, and strategic partnerships. You'll help bring structure and clarity to complex workflows, maintain integrated planning and tracking across teams, and ensure work moves forward smoothly and on schedule.

Reporting to the Head of US and Canada Policy and Partnerships, this is a hands-on role for someone who can juggle competing priorities without dropping details, and enjoys building the systems that turn strategy into consistent execution. The ideal candidate is also fluent in using and leveraging AI tools to increase organizational effectiveness, through automating routine coordination, improving situational awareness, and accelerating decision-making.

• Manage and coordinate multiple concurrent projects, ensuring clear timelines, ownership, and deliverables across internal teams and external partners.

• Provide operational support for policymaker and stakeholder engagements in the US and Canada - including briefing materials and logistical support for external meetings, executive visits, and convenings.

• Maintain an integrated team-wide planning system (campaign calendars, engagement trackers, policy priorities, deliverable timelines).

• Build and drive operating rhythms (weekly planning, leadership updates, workflows), keeping distributed teams aligned across time zones.

• Develop and use our AI tools to strengthen team organization and effectiveness.

• Serve as the operational point person for consultants and vendors.

• Provide operational and administrative support to the Head of US and Canada Policy and Partnerships.

• 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, or similar roles supporting multiple concurrent workstreams in fast-paced environments.

• Demonstrated ability to manage across a broad and diverse set of stakeholders (both internal cross-functional teams and external partners) with excellent judgment and discretion.

• Proficiency with AI tools and strong ability to translate AI capability into practical team workflows.

• Exceptional organizational skill and attention to detail; comfortable building systems that scale coordination across a complex portfolio.

• Strong analytical and writing skills; ability to synthesize complex policy, regulatory, or stakeholder contexts into clear, actionable outputs (briefing memos, readouts, trackers, leadership updates).

• Demonstrated interest in the intersection of technology, policy/politics, and external affairs; familiarity with AI policy, emerging technologies, or regulatory frameworks is a plus (not required).

About OpenAI

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.

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