Recruiting Optimization Manager
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · People
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a manager-level Recruiter in the people function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with OpenAI, Performance Optimization. Compensation is listed at $216,000–$240,000 per year.
- Role
- Recruiter
- Function
- people
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- People
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout the Team
OpenAI’s People team is committed to hiring, engaging, and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
The Recruiting Optimizations Manager is responsible for building and strengthening the systems, workflows, and operational infrastructure that make hiring at OpenAI fast, rigorous, and scalable. This role partners across recruiting, systems, and people teams to ensure recruiting foundations are efficient, reliable, auditable, and built to scale as OpenAI continues to grow rapidly and globally.
This role leads Recruiting Operations optimization efforts across workflow design, operational automation, systems enablement, and scalable service operations.
About the Role
This role is focused on the systems and operational backbone of recruiting. The Recruiting Operations Manager will lead work across recruiting systems, workflow design, automation, process optimization, and data integrity to improve how hiring runs at scale.
This role will translate business needs into durable operational solutions, drive improvements across the recruiting technology stack, and identify opportunities to reduce manual work through better tooling, automation, and process design. The right person will combine strong people management with systems thinking, operational rigor, and a practical approach to scaling high-quality recruiting infrastructure.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We are not considering remote candidates at this time.