Senior Product Policy Lead, Regulation OpenAISan Francisco (Hybrid) Full-time$302,000 – $335,000 / year Upload your resume once and Scout applies for you Apply with ScoutShare this job: LinkedInXSave image This policy role tracks AI regulation and legislation and translates external developments into requirements for OpenAI's research, products, and safety work. You'll advise technical teams alongside Legal and Global Affairs, helping clarify evidence needs, implementation options, and decisions under uncertainty.* Permanent* Hybrid or Fully Remote
Skills and expertiseAI regulation Public policy Legislative and regulatory analysis Product policyAI model capabilities and limitations Evaluation requirements Policy recommendations Product advising
Key responsibilities:- Map and prioritize regulatory and legislative developments across jurisdictions and AI issue areas.* Translate external developments into research questions, evaluation needs, product requirements, and policy recommendations.* Advise technical teams and maintain traceability from external developments to internal decisions and implementation.
How this job compares Compared with 251 open senior product jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job pays $302K to $335K a year. The 113 open senior product jobs that publish US pay start at $178K on average, so this job starts about 70% higher. Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 251 open senior product jobs at 122 companies.
Remote work:
This job is hybrid. 68 of the 251 senior product jobs (27%) are remote. AI in this role: Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The role requires ongoing analysis of AI models, products, evaluations, and safety mitigations, and regular advising of teams that build them. It applies policy and regulatory expertise rather than developing AI systems directly.
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About the Team:
The Product Policy team develops and implements policies that shape how OpenAI's technology is built and used. We work with teams across the company to turn complex questions about AI's benefits and risks into practical guidance for responsible research, product development, and deployment.
About the Role:
As Product Policy Manager, Regulation, you will map external regulatory and legislative trends and synthesize them into concrete research, product, and policy requirements. You will connect deep expertise in regulation and public policy with a sophisticated understanding of AI and strong product judgment. Your remit will span frontier AI, youth, wellbeing, use in high-stakes domains, deceptive use, and other emerging issues. Working closely with Legal and Global Affairs, you will help Product, Engineering, Research, and Safety teams understand what external developments mean for their work, what decisions or evidence are needed, and how to act. We're looking for someone who combines deep regulatory and public-policy expertise with an in-depth understanding of AI and a demonstrated ability to advise product and engineering teams. You should be able to move from complex external developments to clear decisions and requirements that teams can implement. This role can be based in San Francisco or Remote. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:- Map and prioritize regulatory and legislative developments across jurisdictions and AI issue areas. Distinguish enacted requirements, proposals, guidance, and emerging expectations; assess their relevance, uncertainty, timing, and implications for our models and products.
- Translate external developments into actionable research questions, evaluation needs, product requirements, and policy recommendations. Identify gaps in evidence, define the intended outcome and acceptance criteria, and make tradeoffs and open questions clear.
- Advise Product, Engineering, Research, and Safety teams throughout design, launch, and iteration. Partner with Legal on legal interpretation and applicability, and with Global Affairs on legislative context and external engagement, to develop feasible implementation options and clear ownership.
- Maintain traceability from external signals to internal decisions, requirements, and implementation. Track material changes, surface dependencies and emerging risks, and use research, product evidence, and expert input to refine recommendations and inform external policy discussions. You might thrive in this role if you:
- Bring substantial experience in AI or technology regulation, public policy, product policy, or a related field, including interpreting complex regulatory and legislative developments across jurisdictions and translating them into action.
- Understand AI deeply, including model capabilities and limitations, training and deployment, evaluations, and safety mitigations. You can reason about how requirements differ at the model, product, and deployment levels and identify where further research is needed.
- Have a strong record of product advising and close partnership with product managers, engineers, and researchers. You can turn ambiguous concerns into specifications, implementation options, acceptance criteria, and decisions that improve products.
- Exercise sound judgment under uncertainty, prioritize across a broad portfolio, and manage work from an emerging external signal through implementation and iteration.
- Communicate clearly and precisely with technical teams, legal and policy experts, and executives. You can explain regulatory complexity, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and resolve disagreement constructively.
- Bring breadth across AI policy issues—including frontier risks, youth, wellbeing, high-stakes uses, and deceptive use—and the ability to build depth quickly with subject-matter experts, research, data, and user insights.
About OpenAIOpenAI 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.
