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Workforce Planning Manager
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About The Role OpenAI is scaling rapidly, and headcount is our most critical investment. We are hiring our first Workforce Planning Manager to build the foundation of how we plan, track, and forecast our growth. This cross‑functional leadership role sits in Recruiting Operations and bridges Finance, Recruiting, People Ops, and Real Estate & Workplace Services.
As our first dedicated hire, you will stand up a new capability that will grow into a Workforce Planning Center of Excellence (COE). You’ll serve as both a strategic partner to leadership and a hands‑on builder of the infrastructure, processes, and reporting that allow us to scale responsibly.
Key Responsibilities
Build Workforce Planning as a Function:
Establish frameworks, governance, and reporting that become the backbone of headcount planning. Create consistent definitions and standards for headcount and lay the groundwork for a future Workforce Planning COE.
Headcount Planning & Strategy:
Partner with Finance to translate business goals into headcount budgets. Align hiring priorities with strategy, ensuring clarity on sequencing and trade‑offs. Play a central role in quarterly and annual planning cycles.
Recruiting Supply & Demand Alignment:
Model recruiting capacity vs. demand to inform role openings and timing. Partner with Recruiting Leadership to align priorities with funnel realities. Provide executive visibility into supply/demand health with dashboards.
Data Integration & Insights:
Integrate and reconcile data across Finance (Anaplan), Recruiting (Ashby), People Ops (Workday), and Real Estate (occupancy dashboards). Ensure a single source of truth and build reporting that ties hiring outcomes to financial plans and space requirements. Translate data into actionable insights.
Forecasting & Scenario Planning:
Build models for headcount growth, attrition, and hiring pace. Partner with Real Estate & Workplace Services to forecast space needs under scenarios. Deliver scenario analyses for executive decision‑making.
Cross‑Functional Leadership:
Act as connective tissue between Finance, Recruiting, People Ops, and Real Estate. Influence stakeholders with data‑grounded insights and surface trade‑offs between budget, hiring capacity, and organizational needs.
About You
7–10+ years in workforce planning, people analytics, FP&A, or strategic operations, ideally in a fast‑scaling tech environment.
Proven experience building new processes, systems, or functions from scratch.
Strong analytical toolkit; comfortable working across HRIS, ATS, financial planning, and real estate systems.
A track record of driving alignment across executive‑level stakeholders.
Able to operate at two altitudes: strategic partner to leadership and hands‑on builder of infrastructure.
Excited by the opportunity to create a new function that will scale with the company.
Why This Role Matters This is a rare opportunity to start a new capability inside OpenAI. Getting headcount right is critical to our mission. By building the Workforce Planning & Analytics function you’ll ensure OpenAI grows with clarity, efficiency, and foresight.
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 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. For additional information, see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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Workforce Planning Manager
role at
OpenAI .
About The Role OpenAI is scaling rapidly, and headcount is our most critical investment. We are hiring our first Workforce Planning Manager to build the foundation of how we plan, track, and forecast our growth. This cross‑functional leadership role sits in Recruiting Operations and bridges Finance, Recruiting, People Ops, and Real Estate & Workplace Services.
As our first dedicated hire, you will stand up a new capability that will grow into a Workforce Planning Center of Excellence (COE). You’ll serve as both a strategic partner to leadership and a hands‑on builder of the infrastructure, processes, and reporting that allow us to scale responsibly.
Key Responsibilities
Build Workforce Planning as a Function:
Establish frameworks, governance, and reporting that become the backbone of headcount planning. Create consistent definitions and standards for headcount and lay the groundwork for a future Workforce Planning COE.
Headcount Planning & Strategy:
Partner with Finance to translate business goals into headcount budgets. Align hiring priorities with strategy, ensuring clarity on sequencing and trade‑offs. Play a central role in quarterly and annual planning cycles.
Recruiting Supply & Demand Alignment:
Model recruiting capacity vs. demand to inform role openings and timing. Partner with Recruiting Leadership to align priorities with funnel realities. Provide executive visibility into supply/demand health with dashboards.
Data Integration & Insights:
Integrate and reconcile data across Finance (Anaplan), Recruiting (Ashby), People Ops (Workday), and Real Estate (occupancy dashboards). Ensure a single source of truth and build reporting that ties hiring outcomes to financial plans and space requirements. Translate data into actionable insights.
Forecasting & Scenario Planning:
Build models for headcount growth, attrition, and hiring pace. Partner with Real Estate & Workplace Services to forecast space needs under scenarios. Deliver scenario analyses for executive decision‑making.
Cross‑Functional Leadership:
Act as connective tissue between Finance, Recruiting, People Ops, and Real Estate. Influence stakeholders with data‑grounded insights and surface trade‑offs between budget, hiring capacity, and organizational needs.
About You
7–10+ years in workforce planning, people analytics, FP&A, or strategic operations, ideally in a fast‑scaling tech environment.
Proven experience building new processes, systems, or functions from scratch.
Strong analytical toolkit; comfortable working across HRIS, ATS, financial planning, and real estate systems.
A track record of driving alignment across executive‑level stakeholders.
Able to operate at two altitudes: strategic partner to leadership and hands‑on builder of infrastructure.
Excited by the opportunity to create a new function that will scale with the company.
Why This Role Matters This is a rare opportunity to start a new capability inside OpenAI. Getting headcount right is critical to our mission. By building the Workforce Planning & Analytics function you’ll ensure OpenAI grows with clarity, efficiency, and foresight.
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 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. For additional information, see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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