Interview Program Manager

About the Team

At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this mission requires hiring extraordinary talent across research, engineering, product, policy, operations, and leadership roles. The Recruiting team sits at the center of this effort, responsible for identifying, attracting, and delivering world-class candidates who align with OpenAI’s values and ambitions.

The

Recruiting team

is responsible for identifying, assessing, and hiring people who raise OpenAI’s bar while strengthening our culture and execution.

Recruiting Operations

builds the systems, workflows, and quality standards that allow hiring to scale without sacrificing rigor or candidate experience.

Interviewer Programs

are a key part of this infrastructure. This function builds the systems that support strong interviewing, including:

interviewer onboarding and training

certification and activation pathways

calibration and feedback quality programs

visibility into interviewer readiness and supply

operational mechanisms that help hiring teams trust interview signal

As OpenAI continues to scale, this work ensures our interview process remains

consistent, fair, and high-signal across the company.

About the Role

As a

Program Manager for Interviewer Programs

, you will design and scale the systems that help interviewers ramp quickly, stay calibrated, and deliver consistent interview signal over time.

You will partner closely with

Recruiting Operations, recruiting leadership, candidate experience, systems, and analytics teams

to translate hiring needs into practical programs, workflows, and operational infrastructure.

This role focuses on building durable systems rather than coordinating projects. The right candidate is a

systems-minded builder

who enjoys turning ambiguous problems into scalable programs that improve interviewer readiness and trust in the interview process.

In this role you will:
Designing and scaling interviewer onboarding programs

that help new interviewers move from training enrollment to live interview readiness

Building certification, shadowing, calibration, and refresh pathways

so interviewer readiness stays current over time

Developing operating mechanisms for interviewer programs

, including dashboards, SOPs, program cadences, and escalation paths

Partnering with Recruiting Operations, recruiting leadership, and coordination teams

to improve interviewer activation, readiness visibility, and supply planning

Strengthening trust in interview signal

through calibration programs, feedback quality expectations, and remediation pathways

Embedding AI-first practices into interviewer enablement

, including AI-assisted training, documentation, and program tooling

Measuring program health through operational metrics

, such as readiness coverage, certification rates, calibration participation, activation speed, and interviewer supply health

Reducing manual operational work

by building scalable, self-serve systems for interviewers, recruiters, and program stakeholders

You'll thrive in this role if you have:
Experience building or scaling

interviewer training, enablement, or readiness programs

in a high-growth environment

Strong

program management experience

in recruiting operations, interview operations, enablement, learning design, or similar operational domains

Demonstrated ability to

design repeatable systems

, not just manage one-off programs

Comfort working with

AI-enabled tools and workflows

that improve operational quality and efficiency

Strong

communication and facilitation skills

, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams

A

systems-thinking mindset

that connects process, tooling, data, training, and stakeholder behavior into a cohesive operating model

Strong judgment and prioritization in

fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Familiarity with

interviewer calibration, feedback quality, recruiting systems, or assessment tooling

is a plus

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office and we aren’t considering remote applications at this time. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

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.

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

.

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Compensation

$171K – $240K + Offers Equity