Executive Researcher

We are looking for a highly experienced Executive Researcher who specializes in talent identification and engagement of most sought-after executive talent across various disciplines. You will have a close partnership with Executive Recruiters, hiring partners, coordinators and any cross-functional partners needed to succeed.

Our team has an outsized impact opportunity for someone who has deep experience sourcing for executive level roles and driving all the front-end candidate funnel stages. You'll own hiring manager relationships across the entire organization, identify and engage leading experts in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and leaders to carefully scale and optimize our teams.

Ideally, we are considering candidates to work out of our San Francisco HQ, but may consider remote work.

In this role, you will:

• Identify and engage top senior talent for confidential, executive roles at OpenAI

• Partner with hiring teams to develop a deep understanding of our business's current and future hiring and develop sourcing strategies to fulfill those needs

• Act as the initial touchpoint for your candidates, striving for exceptional experience and quick progress

• In partnership with your Executive Recruiting partner, act as a thought-partner and advisor to hiring teams, including sharing talent market intelligence and candidate insights

• Act as an ambassador for OpenAI when engaging with top talent

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 8+ years of experience in a research or sourcing role working on executive searches at fast paced, high growth companies

• Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence, and their potential for positive impact on humanity

• Are passionate about building and growing relationships

• Connect and relate to a wide range of people, personalities, and values

• Care deeply about building a diverse and inclusive recruiting pipeline and work environment

• Have a track record of balancing multiple open roles in an organized method

• Learn quickly and thrive in a constantly evolving environment with shifting priorities

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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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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