Recruiting Coordinator

The Consumer Products organization at OpenAI builds devices and experiences that bring advanced AI into the physical world. Our work spans connected devices, embedded systems, industrial design, and manufacturable hardware - all in service of creating safe, intuitive, and delightful consumer products.

As part of the Recruiting team, you will play a key role in supporting hiring across this organization. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, and product specialists across hardware, embedded firmware, industrial design, manufacturing, and related functions that power our consumer products.

This role is based in our San Francisco Jackson Square office. We are not considering remote applications at this time. We offer relocation support to new employees and follow a hybrid work model, with four days in the office and Wednesdays typically working remote.

We're seeking a Recruiting Coordinator to support senior-, staff-, and executive-adjacent hiring across OpenAI's Consumer Products organization. In this role, you will manage complex interview logistics, act as a trusted point of contact for candidates, and deliver a highly polished experience for individuals who are often leaders and experts in their fields.

This role is well suited for someone who brings strong judgment, calm execution, and a hospitality-oriented mindset to high-stakes recruiting environments.

• Own end-to-end interview coordination for senior-level candidates across multiple disciplines and time zones

• Serve as a primary, trusted point of contact for candidates, ensuring clear, timely, and thoughtful communication

• Coordinate onsite and offsite interview experiences, ensuring visits are professional, seamless, and welcoming

• Manage travel and interview logistics with attention to detail, discretion, and responsiveness

• Support interviewers and hiring teams by ensuring schedules, materials, and logistics are well prepared

• Maintain accurate records and hiring activity within recruiting systems

• Proactively identify and implement improvements to candidate experience, coordination workflows, and recruiting operations

• 5+ years of recruiting coordination experience, including support for senior, staff, or leadership-level roles

• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder scheduling with changing priorities

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail in fast-paced environments

• Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills suitable for senior audiences

• Strong judgment and discretion when handling sensitive or high-profile interactions

• Experience supporting hiring for highly technical, consumer products, or cross-disciplinary teams

• Experience working directly with senior leaders, executives, or distinguished industry experts

• Familiarity with modern recruiting tools and systems

• A process-oriented mindset with examples of improving systems, documentation, or operational workflows

• Interest in consumer technology and AI-enabled products

About OpenAI

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.

We 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.

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