Strategic Risk Analyst

Job description

About the team The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal and external partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits humanity. We are building a horizontal “radar” for AI abuse and strategic risk—correlating internal signals, external intelligence, and real-world events into clear, actionable priorities for OpenAI’s safety and product decision-makers. About the role: As a Strategic Risk Analyst, you will help develop and maintain our central view of strategic risk across OpenAI’s products and platforms. You will synthesize internal abuse patterns, upstream and external intelligence, and product and conversational signals into decision-ready risk insights, recurring briefs, and practical prioritization inputs You will partner closely with investigators, engineers, and policy and trust and safety counterparts, as well as measurement and forecasting teammates, to translate...