Senior M&A People Partner

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Senior M&A People Partner

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is scaling rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Ensuring that acquired teams feel aligned, supported, and able to contribute quickly is essential to sustaining our performance and preserving our culture.

About This Role

You will lead the People diligence and integration strategy for acquired teams joining OpenAI. This ensures that new teammates understand our mission, leadership principles, and how we operate in a high-velocity, high-trust environment. You will partner closely with Corp Dev, Legal, People team partners, and functional leaders across the business to create a consistent and thoughtful experience from diligence through long‑term success.

This role sits within the People Standards team and reports to the Head of Global Employee Relations and People Standards. As our team grows, alignment may evolve as our People organization scales.

What You’ll Do

Co‑design diligence and integration People strategy with HRBPs, Recruiting, Corp Dev, Legal, and functional leaders – anchored in performance expectations and culture.

Ensure acquired employees are accurately onboarded into our systems and tools to provide a positive onboarding experience.

Identify and surface risks around culture, compensation philosophy and expectations, and mission alignment.

Ensure that retained teams have clarity on roles, reporting structures, decision‑making norms, and communication channels.

Lead leadership alignment and change management strategies to ensure acquired employees feel trust, belonging, and purpose.

Create repeatable integration models (org mapping, onboarding, performance frameworks, retention monitoring, systems cutover).

Build communications and leader enablement materials that foster transparency and reduce ambiguity during transitions.

Track engagement, retention, and performance signals to inform integration strategy over 6–12 months post‑close.

What You’ll Bring

7+ years in People Ops, HRBP partnership, M&A and Talent Integration, or org transformation.

Experience influencing across senior technical leaders, C‑suite, and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Judgment and confidentiality navigating sensitive people transitions and leadership decisions.

Deep empathy and advocacy for the employee experience – especially through change.

How You’ll Grow Impact At OpenAI

You will ensure that acquisitions strengthen – not dilute – our culture, performance bar, and mission alignment.

You will materially accelerate time‑to‑impact for acquired talent and teams.

OpenAI is 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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background 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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

Compensation Range : $260K

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