OpenAI - Executive Sourcer, Business

• Conduct thoughtful first-touch candidate engagement, building trust, assessing interest, and positioning OpenAI’s mission and opportunities with clarity. • first-touch candidate engagement • Act as a strategic advisor on talent markets, competitive landscapes, compensation trends, and organizational structures. • strategic advisor • Develop and maintain evergreen talent networks for repeatable or evolving leadership needs. • evergreen talent networks • Synthesize market signals and insights to help refine search direction, scope, and sequencing. • market signals and insights • Navigate highly confidential searches with exceptional judgment, discretion, and operational rigor. • Partner with recruiting operations to ensure accurate documentation, progress tracking, and executive-level updates. • accurate documentation, progress tracking, and executive-level updates • 5–10+ years of sourcing or research experience, ideally in executive search or high-growth tech. • Proven ability to run research-heavy, zero→one searches and produce strong, targeted pipelines for senior-level roles. • Deep expertise in search strategy, including talent mapping, competitive research, and proactive outreach. • Exceptional written communication—able to craft compelling outreach, talent insights, and search briefs. • Ability to quickly understand and articulate complex leadership roles across Finance, Legal, People, Operations, GTM, and Policy. • Strong relationship-building skills, with an ability to establish credibility and trust at the executive level. • High judgment and discretion, especially when navigating sensitive or confidential leadership searches. • A fast-moving, proactive operating style with strong prioritization skills. • Strong partnership instincts—collaborative, communicative, and comfortable in highly ambiguous environments. • Experience supporting non-technical (GTM, Operations, Marketing, Finance, etc.) leadership roles. • Background at an executive search firm or internal exec recruiting team. • Experience engaging candidates at VP, SVP, C-suite, or founder level. • Global research experience or exposure to international markets. • OpenAI 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.