Facilities Standards & Strategy, Program Manager

About this role

About The Team
The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team at OpenAI designs and manages spaces, programs, and services that empower our employees and advance our mission. Our team covers a diverse range of functions, including leasing, global operations, analytics, construction, workplace experience, and employee services. We strive to support OpenAI’s mission of researching and deploying safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity by optimizing the employee experience and maintaining operational excellence and financial discipline through rigorous focus on flexibility, cost effectiveness, intentional design, and scalable, people-centric solutions.


About The Role
We are seeking a highly experienced facilities professional to support parts of our expanding real estate portfolio across the globe. This is an extremely dynamic role that balances time between large scale collaborative projects and focus work around facilities standards and safeguards. This role reports to the AMERs Workplace Leader within the Workplace Operations org and involves close collaboration across various REW pillars and other cross-functional partners including Design & Construction, Leasing, Global Food Programs, Corporate Security, IT, and other external partners.


This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with the requirement of being in the office
5 days per week
. Relocation assistance is available for new hires.


In This Role You Will

• Develop, align, and maintain technical facilities standards globally, defining how OpenAI designs, operates, and maintains its buildings in a way that ensures safety, reliability, scalability, and consistency across regions while respecting local requirements.
• Build and manage a high-quality vendor bench for facilities operations, including selecting, onboarding, and partnering with specialized service providers to support maintenance, emergency response, and ongoing operational excellence.
• Serve a...