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About the Role

The Chief of Staff for the Civil Society and Philanthropy Division will be a strategic and operational partner to the Division Head, helping shape priorities, focus leadership attention, and build and run the growing Division. This role calls for initiative, sound judgment, attention to detail, and a willingness to do the work needed to keep the team moving.

Responsibilities

Shape priorities and drive follow-through
Run the team’s planning and coordination
Prepare leadership and Board materials
Lead priority projects and improve team workflows
Support hiring and help new colleagues succeed

Requirements

5 –10+ years of experience in roles like program management, strategy and operations, strategy consulting, program leadership, or early-stage startups
Demonstrated experience at turning ambiguous problems into structured plans and executed outcomes
Experience building an initiative or operating function from an early stage, leading people or cross-functional teams, and delivering in fast-moving environments with significant ownership and limited guidance
Strong analytical skills: the ability to structure an unfamiliar problem, assess evidence, and prepare clear options and recommendations for senior leaders.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to draft concise briefs, presentations, and updates for different audiences.
Ability to build trust across teams, work effectively with senior leaders and external partners, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
AI-native working habits: demonstrated ability to use AI highly effectively in real workflows to produce better work and get more done, with sound judgment about its limitations and careful verification of outputs. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate this in a practical work exercise.
A hands-on approach, close attention to detail, and reliable follow-through, with a commitment to serving as the team’s full-time Chief of Staff.
Commitment to the Foundation’s mission and to expanding human opportunity through responsible AI adoption.
Prior Chief of Staff experience, experience supporting an executive, and responsibility for operations in a growing team.
Ability to move easily between strategy, operations, and organizational questions, work effectively with technical or other specialized teams, and get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar topics.
Familiarity with civil society, philanthropy, or the societal impacts of AI.

Skills

AI highly effectively in real workflows
Sound judgment about AI limitations
Careful verification of AI outputs
Project tracking
Knowledge sharing
Team coordination
Research
Analysis
Drafting
Coordination

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Minimum of three days per week in the office

Experience Level

5 –10+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$244,000 to $336,000 USD

About the Company

AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care. It has the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits—faster medical breakthroughs, accelerated scientific discovery, more personalized services in healthcare and education, new tools for creativity and invention, higher productivity and economic growth, improved public services like transportation systems, and so much more.
But building powerful systems to benefit humanity is only a part of the work of our mission. Advanced AI models will also present new challenges that are already surfacing, and we need to be prepared to identify these challenges and develop solutions to address them.
These are the two dimensions of what we’re building the Foundation to do. We aim to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform what people are capable of, and deliver real benefits in people’s lives—while working hard with partners to be ready for new challenges, and to help make society resilient, as AI advances.
This work is just beginning. Over the next year, as we quickly ramp up, the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. This includes early investments toward our previously announced $25 billion commitment to curing diseases and AI resilience.
Civil Society and Philanthropy is an OpenAI Foundation team dedicated to putting advanced AI to work on challenges facing people and communities globally and helping shape an economic future in which AI’s benefits are broadly shared. We partner with nonprofit and civil society organizations and governments around the world, putting in place the resources needed to ensure AI can meaningfully support their work.
We combine philanthropic investment, technical expertise, and convening power to work alongside trusted partners that deliver essential services and expand economic opportunity across geographies and issue areas. Together, we identify opportunities where AI can strengthen their work, expand their reach, and tangibly benefit their communities. Our economic futures work extends this mission to how AI is reshaping work and livelihoods, helping people and communities navigate economic change and advancing approaches that translate AI’s gains into broadly shared prosperity.

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.