Program Manager

About the Role

As a Program Manager on the Sora team, you will partner with research and key partner teams to bridge creative production and emerging technologies. This role combines program and project management with hands-on creative production, ensuring that experimental projects, research initiatives, and production efforts move forward seamlessly.

We are looking for people who enjoy operating in a high accountability, high expectation environment where the goal is always to produce the best solution. Honesty, openness to new ideas, and willingness to accept and respond to feedback are critical. You’ll collaborate with technical teams, creative partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive projects that shape the next generation of generative media.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee the end-to-end planning and execution of creative projects that inform and support research initiatives

• Coordinate specialized creative teams to deliver high-quality visual and video outputs

• Partner with research teams to translate experimental findings into actionable insights, identifying creative opportunities and gaps

• Develop scalable workflows and production systems that enable efficient, high-quality content creation

• Identify operational gaps and build efficiencies to that ensure the team runs smoothly and remains well-integrated with the rest of the company

• Act as a liaison between creative, legal, and operational teams to streamline procurement, contracting, and external partnerships

• Support cross-functional storytelling efforts, including launch content, demo, product assets as needed

Minimum qualifications:

• Excellent project or production management skills, with a track record of having delivered on complex projects in a fast-moving environment

• Ability to manage end-to-end creative production, from concept to post-production across various type of creative pipelines

• A creative mindset paired with the ability to provide constructive feedback on visual and experiential content

• A filmmaker and/or creative producer with a strong eye for visual storytelling and subject matter expertise in the technical filmmaking pipelines

• Ability to learn new skills and technologies to deliver the most effective solutions, and break down technical work into pieces that you both understand and can re-articulate to others

• Strong organizational and communication skills; you’re comfortable context-switching across multiple streams of work

• Strong attention to detail

• Prior experience collaborating with technical teams, researchers, or product teams is helpful, but not required

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Are excited to understand the technicalities of cutting edge AI research and work alongside researchers from instantiation to launch

• Enjoy being part of an ambitious and technically-minded team

• Bring a creative lens to any project you work on—whether solutioning, or creative production

• Have experience working at large scale across a portfolio of projects

• Want to get your hands dirty; grit and creative problem solving will be required daily

• Have an action-oriented and deeply curious mind

• Learn concepts exceptionally quickly, seeking out knowledge to become proficient in areas that are new to you

• Operate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthless prioritization

• Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease

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. 

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