Engineering Manager, Youth Well-Being

About the Team

The Youth Well-Being product team is part of the Integrity pillar at OpenAI, responsible for ensuring that our state-of-the-art AI technologies are deployed in safe, age-appropriate, and beneficial ways—especially for youth and families.

We work across OpenAI’s entire product surface area, from ChatGPT to future-facing tools, to architect safety and trust into the foundation of our systems. Our mission: empower families while meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ethical responsibility.

This work is core to OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Safety, especially for the most vulnerable users, is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Engineering Leader to help build the foundational systems that power family and youth-facing experiences at scale. You’ll help define how teens and guardians engage with OpenAI products—ensuring those experiences are safe, compliant, and empowering.

You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, designers, user researchers, and policy experts. This is a high-impact, 0→1 opportunity to set the standard for how families interact with generative AI.

In this role, you will:

• Hire and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team
• Guide the team in implementing teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT.
• Build global age assurance systems that are privacy-preserving and tailored to regional compliance needs.
• Design and evolve our identity infrastructure to support scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys at consumer internet scale.
• Help define safety and well-being metrics, and continuously improve user trust through technical interventions.
• Ensure your team of engineers are performing at their peak, are growing, and advancing in their careers

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have at least 5 years of experience managing the team, ideally in a closely related domain.
• Have experience in trust & safety, youth well being, anti-fraud or anti-abuse spaces
• Can dive into our codebase, intuit how it works, and be able to have a strong intuition for suggestions that will lead us to a stronger engineering position.
• Experience closing competitive candidates for their team and the ability to craft and convey compelling visions of the future
• Very high emotional intelligence and deeply empathetic personality. A strong ability to read between the lines and genuinely connect with fellow colleagues
• A voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills. An equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary
• Are deeply thoughtful about culture and building strong teams