Recruiting Manager, Business

About the Team
OpenAI exists to build safe AGI that benefits everyone. Doing this well requires people who are not only world-class in their craft but deeply aligned with our mission and values. Our Recruiting team is the gateway to OpenAI — a tight-knit, mission-driven group that takes pride in thoughtful, relationship-first hiring. We partner deeply with teams across the company to find, engage, and support the people who will shape the future of AI.

About the Role
This role leads recruiting for our Business and G&A functions, including Finance, Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, Marketing, Strategy, Workplace, and Exec Operations, which are critical to OpenAI’s operational excellence, long-term strategy, and global scale. Your work directly shapes the foundational talent that powers OpenAI’s growth.

As the Manager of G&A Recruiting, you’ll lead and develop a team of high-performing recruiters building talent-dense, values-aligned teams across these domains. You’ll partner closely with senior leadership, HR Business Partners, and global stakeholders to define hiring strategy, drive execution, refine processes, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience. This role blends people leadership, hands-on recruiting expertise, data-driven decision-making, and strategic execution to support OpenAI’s rapid, high-quality growth. This role reports to our Global Head of GTM and G&A Recruiting.

This role is based in our San Francisco office and we aren’t considering remote applications at this time. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Business/G&A recruiters; foster a culture of excellence, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with senior leaders across Finance, Legal, Communications, Exec Operations, and other G&A orgs to understand team objectives and translate them into effective hiring strategies.

• Oversee execution of full-cycle recruiting across the team — ensuring rigor in assessment, high-quality candidate experience, and alignment to OpenAI’s values.

• Implement and optimize scalable recruiting processes that support rapid, high-quality growth across regions.

• Identify bottlenecks, operational gaps, and opportunities to streamline workflows; collaborate with HR, Legal, and Compensation to ensure accuracy and compliance.

• Use data and funnel analytics to track performance, forecast progress, and guide decision-making.

• Drive advanced sourcing strategies (including diversity-focused pipelines) and leverage tools such as Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter to elevate candidate quality and reach.

• Provide coaching to hiring managers on interviewing, evaluation, and employment branding to ensure consistency and excellence.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 8–10+ years of business/G&A recruiting experience, with 2+ years leading recruiters.

• Demonstrated success hiring in both high-growth startup environments and more scaled, complex organizations.

• Strong ability to operate at multiple altitudes — from strategic planning to hands-on execution when needed.

• Data-driven approach to diagnosing funnel performance and improving team output.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills across senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

• Adaptability and resilience in a fast-changing environment; ability to guide teams through ambiguity.

• Proficiency with ATS and sourcing platforms (especially Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern recruiting tools).

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office and we offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

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.

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