About the Team
OpenAI’s People team aims to hire, engage, and retain world-class talent who will safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The Benefits team is an important subset of the HR team and is responsible for creating and delivering best in class, innovative benefits, and experiences for a rapidly growing employee population, both in and out of the US.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Leave & Accommodation Specialist to own day-to-day operations across OpenAI’s leave of absence and workplace accommodations programs. This is a hands-on, employee-facing role responsible for intake and case management, policy and compliance execution, HRIS and payroll coordination, and vendor partnership.
You’ll serve as a primary point of contact for employees and managers navigating leave or accommodation needs, exercising sound judgment and discretion in sensitive situations, and helping improve tools, documentation, and workflows across Total Rewards. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Global Leave & Accommodation.
Your Responsibilities:
Own day to day end-to-end global leave and accommodations operations, from intake through system updates, payroll coordination, and resolution.
Serve as a primary resource for U.S. and international employees and managers for leave and accommodation requests, including medical, parental, statutory, and other protected leaves, as well as ergonomic, disability-related, and religious accommodations.
Ensure compliance with global applicable laws (e.g., FMLA, ADA, CFRA, PDL, FEHA), partnering with Legal on complex cases.
Audit and maintain accurate global leave and accommodation data in HRIS systems (Workday preferred); partner with HR Systems on testing, audits, and issue resolution; ensure accurate advice-to-pay, coordinating company-paid time off, statutory benefits, vendor-reported pay events, and company top-ups.
Support relationships with third-party administrators and vendors, coordinating handoffs and resolving issues as needed.
Provide clear, empathetic guidance on global leave entitlements, documentation, and timelines and identify opportunities to improve clarity, equity, and efficiency; contribute to refining workflows, tools, and documentation.
We’re Seeking:
5+ years of experience owning leave of absence and/or workplace accommodations operations and case management in a fast-paced, multi-state and/or global environment.
Strong working knowledge of leave and accommodations requirements (e.g., FMLA, ADA and applicable state/local laws; plus statutory leave frameworks as relevant).
Proven ability to coordinate across Legal, HRBPs, Payroll, HR Systems, and third-party administrators/vendors.
High attention to detail and data integrity (HRIS/Workday preferred), strong judgment, and comfort operating independently.
Empathy-driven communication skills and discretion in sensitive, employee-facing situations.
Track record of improving operational processes, documentation, and employee experience.
Workplace & Location
This role is based in our San Francisco office, and we aren’t considering remote applications at this time. We do encourage you to apply even if you prefer a fully remote role as location factors may change over time.
We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid 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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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.
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