About OpenAI Foundation
AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care. It has the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits—faster medical breakthroughs, accelerated scientific discovery, more personalized services in healthcare and education, new tools for creativity and invention, higher productivity and economic growth, improved public services like transportation systems, and so much more.
But building powerful systems to benefit humanity is only a part of the work of our mission. Advanced AI models will also present new challenges that are already surfacing, and we need to be prepared to identify these challenges and develop solutions to address them.
These are the two dimensions of what we’re building the Foundation to do. We aim to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform what people are capable of, and deliver real benefits in people’s lives—while working hard with partners to be ready for new challenges, and to help make society resilient, as AI advances.
This work is just beginning. Over the next year, as we quickly ramp up, the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs.
About the Team
AI Resilience helps society absorb, adapt to, and benefit from increasingly capable AI systems, with work across biosecurity, model safety, cybersecurity, children and youth, and the future of the economy. The team is small and fast-moving with many workstreams, candidates, advisors, grantees, board touchpoints, and special projects in flight. The work requires a high level of judgment and discretion, but it also depends on practical operational excellence: clean trackers, reliable follow-up, clear handoffs, and shared context that people can actually find and use.
About the Role
We are looking for a Chief of Staff for AI Resilience: a high-agency, AI-native operator who can translate priorities into execution, create clarity from ambiguity, and help a small team move dramatically faster without adding bureaucracy.
This person owns the operating and coordination layer for AI Resilience. You will support the team's planning cadence, maintain visibility across grants, projects, hiring, advisors, and collaborators, prepare leadership and board materials, and turn messy operational problems into clear next steps. The right person combines strategic judgment with hands-on execution and uses AI agents, automation, and lightweight internal tools to multiply the team's operating capacity.
In this role, you will
- Build and run AI Resilience’s operating cadence, including planning rhythms, weekly updates, meeting agendas, decision logs, follow-up systems, working docs, and cross-workstream coordination; create clear, polished presentations and briefing materials for leadership and the board.
- Maintain clear visibility across grants, projects, and special-project opportunities, tracking owners, next steps, blockers, dependencies, diligence status, finance/legal handoffs, and decision dates.
- Keep hiring and capacity-building processes moving by maintaining candidate, advisor, fellow, and collaborator trackers, surfacing blockers, clarifying handoffs, and helping owners stay on top of next steps and decisions.
- Create onboarding and context systems for new hires, contractors, advisors, and collaborators, including onboarding packets, context maps, access checklists, reading lists, handoff processes, and shared materials.
- Build and maintain AI-native systems of work: rapidly prototype ("vibe code") lightweight tools for tracking, operations, synthesis, and coordination; deploy and manage a growing set of AI agents; and keep sources of truth organized, current, and easy to navigate across Google Drive, docs, trackers, templates, onboarding materials, and recurring artifacts.
- Partner with EBPs, operations, finance, legal, recruiting, comms, and program leads to clarify handoffs, unblock work, and make escalation paths clear.
- Own scoped operating projects that need a reliable operator, from standing up a new process to coordinating diligence logistics, mapping stakeholders, or turning a messy operating problem into a clear recommendation.
We'd love to hear from you if you
- Have 8+ years or equivalent experience in a chief of staff, special projects, program operations, business operations, project management, startup operations, grantmaking operations, philanthropy, nonprofit, research operations, or similar role.
- Have built trackers, processes, templates, operating rhythms, onboarding materials, or source-of-truth systems for fast-moving teams.
- Are exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and calm under ambiguity.
- Can turn wide-ranging discussions into clear briefs, board-ready presentations, trackers, emails, recommendations, and next steps.
- Use discretion and good judgment with sensitive candidate, board, grant, advisor, and internal strategy context.
- Are AI-native: you use advanced AI tools as a default part of your work, can rapidly prototype ("vibe code") lightweight systems for tracking and operations, and know how to orchestrate AI agents reliably with appropriate human judgment.
- Are energized by both systems-building and hands-on follow-through.
- Have strong interpersonal instincts: warm, direct, service-oriented, and able to work with senior leaders, program leads, candidates, advisors, contractors, and grantees.
- Are deeply mission-aligned and excited to help ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.
It would be great if you also have
- Experience supporting grantmaking, research, policy, philanthropy, nonprofit, or other mission-driven teams.
- Experience maintaining hiring, advisor, fellow, contractor, or collaborator pipelines in a small or fast-moving organization.
- Experience in deploying AI agents and automations that remove repetitive work, improve visibility, and increase a team's operating capacity.