Hybrid Strategic Risk Analyst

at OpenAI

• Job title: Strategic Risk Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $288,000 - $320,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Strategic Risk Analyst synthesizing internal abuse patterns and external intelligence into decision-ready insights for OpenAI. Collaborate cross-functionally to shape safety and product readiness decisions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze internal risk signals (abuse telemetry, investigations outputs, model and product signals) to identify trends, shifts in tactics, and new abuse patterns.
• Conduct upstream and external scanning (OSINT, ecosystem developments, real-world events) and distill implications for OpenAI’s products and threat landscape.
• Identify and deep dive into harms and misuse across products and channels, turning messy signals into clear analytic findings.
• Connect individual incidents into system-level narratives about actors, incentives, product design weaknesses, and cross-product spillover—pressure-testing hypotheses early.
• Produce concise, decision-ready risk briefs and intelligence estimates with explicit assumptions, confidence levels, and what would change the assessment.
• Convert analysis into clear, ranked priorities and actionable recommendations that product, safety, and policy teams can execute on.
• Define and track key risk indicators and outcome metrics to evaluate whether mitigations are working and drive course corrections when needed.
• Build early-warning and monitoring capabilities with data, engineering, and visualization partners, including dashboards that highlight leading indicators and unusual changes.
• Contribute to product readiness and launch reviews; develop reusable playbooks, FAQs, and briefing materials that help teams respond consistently.
• Drive cross-functional alignment by tailoring readouts to investigations, engineering, policy, trust and safety, and product stakeholders—and ensuring decisions and follow-ups are crisp.

Requirements

• Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in trust and safety, integrity, security, policy analysis, or intelligence work.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex online harms and AI-enabled misuse (e.g., harassment, coordinated abuse, scams, synthetic media, influence operations, brand safety issues) and convert analysis into concrete, prioritized recommendations.
• Strong analytical craft: you can identify weak signals, form hypotheses, test them quickly, state assumptions explicitly, and communicate confidence and uncertainty clearly.
• Comfort working across qualitative and quantitative inputs, including (1) casework, incident reports, OSINT, product context, and policy frameworks, and (2) basic metrics and trends in partnership with data science (e.g., harm prevalence, severity profiles, exposure, escalation rates).
• Strong adversarial and product intuition: you can anticipate how actors may adapt AI and creative tools for misuse, and evaluate how product mechanics, incentives, and UX decisions shape risk.
• Experience designing and using risk frameworks and taxonomies (e.g., harm classification schemes, severity/likelihood matrices, prioritization models) to structure ambiguity and support decision-making.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, operations, legal, and policy teams—pushing for clarity on tradeoffs and driving follow-through on mitigation work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including producing concise, executive-ready briefs and explaining sensitive, complex issues in grounded, concrete terms.
• Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments: you can prioritize under uncertainty, iterate quickly, and adjust as the product and threat landscape evolves.
• A builder mindset: you like creating reusable workflows and artifacts (dashboards, playbooks, FAQs, briefing materials) and using modern tools, including OpenAI’s, to scale rigorous analysis.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.