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Executive IT Support Lead

OpenAI San Francisco FullTime IT Posted 3w+ ago
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What it’s like to work at OpenAI

Frontier AI Research · San Francisco

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Employee Rating
3.6
Work-Life Balance
713
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Cutting-edge frontier AI research with world-class colleagues
  • Elite compensation — top-tier TC and equity packages

What could be better

  • High-intensity environment — long hours and intense pace are the norm
  • Internal politics and rapid org changes as the company scales
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About the Role

About the Team

Employee Tech Experience (ETX) provides the technology and services that all OpenAI employees interact with throughout their journey with the company. Our goal is to create journeys that guide employees through all stages of their time at OpenAI. ETX is a team of includes IT Support, Logistics, System Operations, and ITAV.

About the Role

As Executive IT Support Lead you will build and lead a high-touch, white-glove IT support program for OpenAI’s executives. Your responsibilities include designing a program that grows with the changing needs of our executives as the company scales and providing direct IT support to our executives. You will have the opportunity to define how executive support operates with the support of everyone in IT to ensure our executives have the best, most secure technology.

We are looking for someone who has years of success providing the highest level of IT Support for executives at high-growth companies. You should be excellent at communication, troubleshooting, prioritization, coordination, and delegation. Your success in the role depends on your ability to build trust with executives and their business partners and with your peers in ETX and IT.

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Workplace & Location

This role is based out of our San Francisco office and requires 5 days in office per week, with domestic and international travel required multiple times a month as needed.

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.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at OpenAI?
OpenAI has a work-life balance score of 3.6/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is OpenAI’s culture like?
OpenAI is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, ship-fast, learning, product-impact, equity. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4.5/5. Cutting-edge frontier AI research with world-class colleagues
How many open roles does OpenAI have?
OpenAI currently has 713 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in San Francisco. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
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