People Systems Lead

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the People Systems team, creating clear ownership, strong operating practices, and
• Set the strategy and roadmap for OpenAI’s People systems, balancing immediate operational needs
• Own the configuration, reliability, and ongoing operation of core platforms, including Workday and
• Lead complex systems initiatives that span multiple teams and translate organizational needs into
• Design and guide integrations across People systems, internal products, data platforms, and the
• Partner with People Innovation Labs to build employee and manager experiences on top of enterprise

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience with People systems and the workflows they support, ideally including significant
• Led a People Systems, HR technology, enterprise applications, or similarly technical systems team.
• Hands-on experience designing and managing integrations rather than only administering vendor tools.
• Ability to reason about APIs, data flows, system boundaries, permissions, reliability, and failure
• Built or supported custom interfaces, workflow layers, or internal products on top of enterprise
• Product-minded approach to systems work and ability to translate ambiguous business needs into

🎁 Benefits

• Opportunity to work at OpenAI and influence enterprise-wide People systems integrating AI-native
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional partners across Engineering, Finance, Security, and
• Vendor relationship leadership and strategic product discussions to improve outcomes.