HR Generalist: Human Resources (Monday - Friday)

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) team at OpenAI helps shape how our organization operates and performs. We work alongside senior leaders and their teams to design effective organizations, strengthen leadership capabilities, and help people do their best work.
Our expertise spans leadership coaching, organizational design, talent strategy, employee relations, and change management. Our work is grounded in a deep understanding of OpenAI’s Contributions & Impact (C&I) culture and the needs of teams working at the frontier of AI and hardware.
We value sincerity over polish, collaboration over ego, and a relentless focus on meaningful impact.
We’re looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to support OpenAI’s Consumer Device's team.
You’ll serve as a trusted advisor as the organization builds, collaborates, and evolves—helping create the conditions for people and teams to perform at their best.
The role combines strategic advising with hands-on partnership. You’ll help leaders think through organizational questions, coach managers through complex situations, strengthen people practices, and make thoughtful trade-offs that balance the needs of our people, teams, and mission.
Partner with leaders on organizational design, talent planning, and ways of working that support strong performance and sustainable teams.
Strengthen approaches to performance, engagement, and talent development by building solutions that are practical, scalable, and aligned with how OpenAI operates.
Offer candid, actionable feedback and help managers build the skills needed to lead effectively.
Help teams navigate organizational change with empathy, clarity, and rigor, including when established playbooks do not exist.
At least five years of experience as an HR Business Partner supporting hardware, engineering, or similarly technical organizations in fast-moving environments.
An ability to understand and support organizations that bring together different technical, creative, and operational disciplines.
Strategic partnership: Impactful coaching: This role is based in San Francisco, with an in-office schedule on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. We are not considering remote applications at this time. We offer relocation support to new employees.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all 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.
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