Senior Operations Analyst, User Safety & Risk Operations
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $252,000 – $280,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- 8 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $190k to $260k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P3 · asks for 8+ years · posts $252k to $280k base at a frontier lab · sets strategy beyond one team.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Senior operations work in User Safety & Risk Operations at an AI company, covering abuse, fraud, safety risks and other misuse across its products. The team takes new or ambiguous operational risks, including emerging-risk incubation, cloud deployment partnerships and device safety, and turns them into scalable operating capabilities.
What you'd do
- Own a small number of ambiguous safety and risk problems from definition through to closing the loop.
- Analyze user reports, case narratives, conversations and escalations alongside operational metrics to find patterns.
- Turn one-off insights and manual work into repeatable operating mechanisms other people can run.
- Lead sensitive investigations, incident response and launch-readiness work, including human review and escalation paths.
- Coordinate operational monitoring and partner work for product launches and cloud deployments.
- Coach junior operators through calibration and reusable tools.
What it asks for
- Eight-plus years in trust and safety, investigations, incident response, product ops, TPM or a similar judgment-heavy, data-driven role.
- Ability to make sense of messy qualitative and unstructured information alongside quantitative data.
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools, dashboards and data tooling to prototype solutions independently.
- Experience moving an immature workflow into stable, scaled operations (preferred).
- Working knowledge of SQL, light scripting, no-code tools or workflow automation (preferred).
- Experience running vendor operations, quality programs or distributed operational teams (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Exposure to sensitive or concerning content.
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About OpenAI
AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2015
AI research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models.
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