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Made up of technical operators and software engineers, we design the methods through which we acquire and create data.\nAbout the Role\n As a Data Program Manager, Science, you will help researchers develop and execute scientific data programs, connecting OpenAI’s research priorities with relevant data, expertise and external partners.\nYou’ll work closely with researchers to understand their needs, assess the scientific and practical value of opportunities, and develop partnerships across the scientific ecosystem. The work could range from acquiring existing datasets to shaping research collaborations. You’ll carry opportunities from initial investigation through commercial discussions, agreements, delivery and research use, exercising sound judgement around sensitive data and relationships.\nOur current work focuses particularly on biology and chemistry. We welcome different combinations of scientific, technical and partnership experience.\nThis role is based in our San Francisco HQ.\nIn this role, you will:\nDevelop data strategies with Research. Translate research goals, model limitations and evaluation gaps into evidence needs and success criteria. Compare acquisition with internal, public and commissioned alternatives.\n\nFind distinctive sources for research. Build trusted local and international relationships across research and industry, including organisations at the scientific frontier.\n\nAssess opportunities in scientific context. Inspect samples for provenance, context, quality and completeness. Assess usefulness, involving researchers and specialists as needed.\n\nShape partnerships with lasting scientific value. 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Identify shared needs and opportunities for useful collaboration across projects.\n\nMake the work more repeatable. Use code, APIs, automation and AI tools to improve sourcing, assessment and delivery. Resolve recurring blockers with engineers and retain partner knowledge and research feedback.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave substantial grounding in biology, chemistry or related sciences through research, industry or equivalent experience, and engage critically with methods and evidence.\n\nHave delivered complex scientific, data or partnership projects, with depth in one or more of scientific data and evaluation, commercial partnerships or research collaborations across organisations.\n\nExercise sound judgement: test claims, match evidence to research needs and make clear recommendations while acknowledging uncertainty.\n\nWork directly with data: inspect unfamiliar files, investigate quality and use Python, SQL, APIs and AI-assisted coding to answer questions and reduce manual work.\n\nBuild trust through careful listening, precise questions and thoughtful negotiation. You bring relevant local and international relationships, or a demonstrated ability to develop them, and understand what partners value beyond the transaction.\n\nExercise discretion, recognising the limits of your expertise and authority and when scientific, ethical or safety questions need specialist input.\n\nThrive in a fast-moving environment, taking broad ownership across multiple projects and moving readily between scientific, technical and commercial questions. You prioritise thoughtfully as needs change, making clear decisions about where to focus and what can wait.\n\nEnjoy getting your hands dirty, bringing energy and creative problem solving to unfamiliar or ambiguous opportunities. You turn them into practical plans and follow through on the details.\n\nLearn exceptionally quickly, developing your understanding of AI training, evaluation and unfamiliar research areas to become a useful collaborator.\n\nWe welcome different combinations of scientific, technical and partnership experience. You do not need equal depth in every area.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI 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.\nWe 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.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground 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.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. 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