About the job
About Our Team
At OpenAI, our Trust & Safety Operations team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding our platform, ensuring the safety of our users, and protecting the public from potential misuse. We cater to a broad spectrum of clients, including individual users, emerging startups, and established global enterprises, across our diverse offerings like ChatGPT and our API as we continue to innovate.
As a vital part of our Support organization, we work in close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, Go To Market, and Operations teams to provide exceptional user experiences while minimizing risks and reducing material harm.
About the Role
We are seeking seasoned Trust & Safety / Content Integrity professionals who are adept at investigating intricate cases, implementing and refining usage policies in real-world contexts, and developing scalable systems that effectively mitigate risks over time. In this role, you will act as a subject-matter expert (SME) for critical escalations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to facilitate swift and defensible resolutions. You'll also play a key role in designing processes, tools, and automated solutions that ensure safe operations at scale.
This position is ideal for individuals who possess strong judgment and sharp analytical skills, and who thrive on transforming ambiguity into clear decisions, repeatable workflows, and effective automation.
Important Note: This position may require handling sensitive content, which could include highly confidential, sexual, violent, or otherwise disturbing material.
Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid: 3 days in office/week).
Key Responsibilities:
Apply Usage Policy with Precision: Interpret and enforce OpenAI’s usage policies in complex scenarios, providing detailed guidance to both customers and internal teams while documenting exceptions and suggesting policy improvements.
Mitigate Risks and Harm: Assess and manage content and behavior that pose real-world risks, including high-severity cases, ensuring appropriate escalation and resolution.
Act as a Subject-Matter Expert: Support incident responses and high-stakes escalations by delivering clear assessments, recommending actionable next steps, and collaborating with Legal, Compliance, Security, Product, and Engineering teams as required.
Develop Scalable Trust Workflows: Create and manage processes for human-in-the-loop labeling, user reporting, appeals, enforcement actions, and continuous quality assurance, upholding high standards of quality.

