Product Policy - Privacy Expert

Summary

Join OpenAI's Product Policy team and help shape the company's approach to privacy, particularly concerning AI data rights. You will translate privacy expertise into implementable policies and frameworks for the AI era. Collaborate with various teams (legal, product, research, and communications) to align on risk mitigation strategies. This role involves navigating ambiguity and creating actionable guidance in a fast-paced environment. The position is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model (3 days in office). Relocation assistance is offered. The ideal candidate possesses deep privacy expertise and experience translating that knowledge into clear, implementable policies.

Requirements

• Have 7+ years working on privacy, data protection, or technology policy issues, ideally including experience with AI or emerging technology
• Have an understanding of how government, enterprise, and other stakeholders think about privacy issues
• Are fluent in translating complex privacy concepts like consent, data minimization, transparency, and user controls, into implementable guidance
• Possess excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives alike
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy going 0 to 1

Responsibilities

• Provide policy input on high-priority privacy initiatives, including OpenAI’s work on AI data rights and data minimization, with a focus on translating evolving privacy expectations into implementable guidance for product and research teams
• Collaborate with legal, research, comms, and product counterparts to build durable frameworks that address novel privacy risks in emerging model capabilities and deployments
• Drive special projects that cut across traditional privacy domains—such as consent, transparency, and user controls—and require creative, principled policy thinking
• Support the development of incident response protocols, audit practices, and other scalable approaches to privacy risk management

Benefits

• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
• Relocation assistance to new employees