Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
People compliance is an increasingly material function in SaaS companies operating across jurisdictions, where distributed teams, frequent policy updates, and data handling obligations intersect. This Senior Manager role sits at that junction, focusing on global standards, audit readiness, and the practical translation of employment and privacy requirements into day to day people programs. The remit signals an organization dealing with multi region complexity rather than single market HR administration.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable operating skills that travel well across high growth software environments: designing repeatable compliance frameworks, partnering tightly with Legal and Finance, and using metrics and documentation to make programs scalable and inspectable. Experience with regulations such as GDPR and U.S. employment law also maps to common SaaS expansion patterns, where policy consistency and local nuance must coexist.
This role tends to suit professionals who prefer structured problem solving, clear written standards, and cross functional coordination over purely advisory work. It is a strong match for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous regulatory change into operational process, and who is comfortable owning programs that need to be both employee facing and audit defensible in a remote enabled setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI’s People Team hires, engages, and supports world-class talent from diverse backgrounds to help build and deploy beneficial AGI.
The People Compliance and Standards team brings together deep expertise in people policy, compliance, and workplace practices. We play a critical role in shaping how OpenAI supports its people through complexity, rapid growth, and change, ensuring our policies are thoughtful, scalable, and aligned with our values.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Manager, People Compliance to design, execute, and improve global People Compliance programs. Reporting to the Head of People Standards & Compliance, this role leads cross-functional initiatives, assesses regulatory impacts, and operationalizes compliant, scalable people processes aligned with OpenAI’s goals.
You’ll partner closely with Legal, People, Finance, L&D, and other teams to ensure programs are effective, auditable, and scalable.
Responsibilities
Lead global People Compliance initiatives across timelines, stakeholders, and execution
Assess employment laws (e.g., FLSA, ADA, FMLA, GDPR) and support policy updates
Draft and maintain policies, standards, and internal guidance
Support audits, risk assessments, and mitigation efforts
Build and maintain compliant, accessible documentation frameworks
Partner cross-functionally on compliance across records, immigration, classification, and expansion
Track metrics, build dashboards, and provide data-driven insights
Support compliance training development, rollout, and tracking
Assist with audits, regulatory reviews, and government filings
Stay current on global employment laws and support risk planning
Contribute to global compliance goals and organizational growth
We’re Seeking
6–8+ years of experience in program management, compliance, People operations, or risk/audit
Experience in global or growing organizations
Knowledge of U.S. and international employment law and compliance practices
Experience managing cross-functional programs and operational complexity
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Ability to manage multiple priorities
Analytical skills with experience in reporting, metrics, or dashboards
Strong written communication skills
Ability to anticipate compliance challenges and develop practical solutions
Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information
Workplace & Location
This role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model (3 days/week in office). We encourage candidates able to work from this location or open to relocation to apply; relocation support is available.
Our offices offer collaborative workspaces, meals and snacks, and areas for focus and recharge. We prioritize sustainable work practices and employee well-being.
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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