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About the Role
The Program Director is a leadership role on the Catalytic Deployments team, responsible for the strategy and execution of major areas within the team's portfolio. This role involves making large, transformative investments globally, from grants to ambitious multi-year initiatives, and potentially new institutions. The ideal candidate has deep experience in a social sector domain, strong judgment, high ownership, and the ability to operate with significant autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the strategy, prioritization, and the Foundation’s approach to Catalytic Deployments; over time, own specific areas within Catalytic Deployments
- Source, evaluate, and recommend grants and other funding opportunities, including diligence on organizations, projects, and leaders
- Help design and manage a growing portfolio of grants, ensuring strong judgment, clear prioritization, and high-quality follow-through
- As the organization grows, manage other members of the Catalytic Deployments team
- Engage deeply with the external ecosystem, including researchers, nonprofits, academic centers, public-interest organizations, data platforms, funders, and other potential grantee organizations
- Identify gaps in the current ecosystem and develop ideas for how the Foundation can support new efforts, partnerships, or field-building initiatives
- Develop and launch new initiatives from zero-to-one, including shaping concepts, convening stakeholders, and standing up new efforts
- Represent the Foundation in external conversations, building credibility, sourcing opportunities, and strengthening the broader field
- Write clear internal recommendations and strategy memos to support decision-making
- Use frontier AI to support work across the described activities
Requirements
- 10+ years of leadership experience in nonprofits, philanthropy, or government
- Credible experience building and scaling large social-sector initiatives
- Experience in sourcing, assessing, and structuring grants
- Subject matter expertise in at least one social sector domain, such as public health, education, poverty alleviation, and economic mobility
- Ability to reason clearly about AI capabilities, implementation constraints, organizational readiness and the risks of deploying AI systems in civil society contexts
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical or organizational opportunities and make strong recommendations
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities may evolve over time
- Experience engaging credibly with external experts, institutions, and senior stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information clearly and persuasively
- Strong strategic judgment combined with a bias toward execution
- High degree of ownership, discretion, and accountability
- Deep motivation to accelerate AI’s impact in civil society and contribute to the Foundation’s mission
Skills
- Philanthropic investment
- Strategy
- Institution-building
- Operations
- Grant management
- AI capabilities assessment
- AI system deployment risk assessment
- Technical expertise
- Convening power
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Strategic judgment
- Execution
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days in office per week)
- Some travel required
Experience Level
- 10+ years of leadership experience
Salary/Compensations
- $270,000 to $330,000 USD
About the Company
- AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care, with the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits across various sectors.
- The OpenAI Foundation aims to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform human capabilities, and deliver real benefits, while preparing for new challenges and promoting societal resilience.
- The Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next year across life sciences, curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs.
- Civil Society and Philanthropy is a new OpenAI Foundation team dedicated to applying advanced AI to global challenges facing people and communities.
- This team partners with nonprofit and civil society organizations and governments worldwide, providing philanthropic investment, technical expertise, and convening power.
- The team focuses on three areas: applying AI in essential services, equipping civil society organizations with AI tools and support, and building shared infrastructure for the social sector.
- The organization believes that meaningful AI applications are shaped by diverse stakeholders, including educators, clinicians, legal advocates, public servants, researchers, governments, and community organizations.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.