Employment Investigator

About This Team

OpenAIs People team is committed to hiring engaging and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The Global Employee Relations Employment Investigations and People Standards team brings together expertise in employee relations workplace investigations and people policy and compliance. We play a critical role in shaping how OpenAI supports its people through complexity growth and change.

Our team guides and supports the company through some of its most nuanced and high-impact people challenges. We operate with deep context and care balancing trust judgment and creativity in every situation. We dont default to predefined frameworks. Instead we take a principled yet flexible approach designing thoughtful tailored solutions that reflect our values the needs of our employees and the unique pace of OpenAI.

About This Role

Were looking for an Employment Investigator to join our Employment Investigations team. This role reports to the Director of Employment Investigations and leads investigations into potential legal and policy violations. Drawing on your knowledge of employment law and strong investigative skills youll handle sensitive issues with care and empathy and help foster a positive respectful workplace culture.

Youll work closely with senior investigators Legal and HR Business Partners to ensure investigations are handled with care rigor and integrity. This role is ideal for someone who has strong foundational investigations experience and is eager to grow their skills in a fast-paced high-impact environment.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. 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 :

Lead and conduct thorough objective and timely investigations into employee concerns including allegations of misconduct harassment discrimination and other policy violations.

Execute investigations with rigor and adhere to gold standard practices ensuring meticulous attention to detail and adherence to investigative best practices.

Maintain a high level of confidentiality discretion and empathy in all interactions.

Adhere to protocols for gathering and preserving information documentation and report writing.

Maintain accurate complete and consistent data in case management systems to ensure integrity and reliability of investigation records.

Develop investigation plans interview parties and witnesses assess evidence and prepare clear and comprehensive investigation reports.

Escalate complex or sensitive matters to senior investigators and collaborate closely with Legal and other cross-functional partners.

Follow protocols for gathering preserving and documenting evidence in line with best practices and legal standards.

Partner closely with Legal HR and other cross-functional teams to ensure fair consistent and values-aligned resolution of people issues.

Contribute to process improvements by helping refine documentation standards templates and investigation workflows.

Stay informed on employment law trends and workplace investigation best practices seeking guidance when novel issues arise.

You might thrive in this role if you :

A JD degree and 5 years of experience as an employment or workplace investigations attorney or in another in-house investigations role or working on complex employee relations issues. Equivalent experience as an employment attorney is also welcomed. Global employment law experience or AWI-CH designation is a plus.

Experience successfully managing and advising on sensitive nuanced employee relations issues with expertise in managing and de-escalating highly charged matters.

Strong foundational knowledge of employment law and workplace investigation practices; some global exposure is a plus.

Excellent analytical written and verbal communication skills with the ability to draft clear and defensible reports.

Outstanding interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence enabling you to build trust rapport and influence with employees at all levels.

A detail-oriented structured approach to problem-solving and documentation.

Sound judgment with a clear sense of when to escalate complex or sensitive matters.

A growth mindset and a motivation to learn from experienced investigators and legal professionals.

The capacity to thrive adapt and excel in a high-performance and rapidly changing work environment.

Unwavering integrity and professionalism with a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information with the utmost discretion.

Demonstrated empathy and the ability to think creatively and strategically in high-pressure situations.

Why This Role is Exciting :

Youll work on meaningful and impactful issues at the intersection of people trust and organizational integrity.

Youll have the opportunity to grow your expertise in complex investigations with mentorship and guidance from senior investigators and Legal partners.

Youll contribute to building fair transparent processes that reflect OpenAIs values and culture.

As the company continues to expand globally youll gain exposure to multi-region issues in a way that accelerates your professional growth.

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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Key Skills

Epidemiology,Public Health,Bank Secrecy Act,Bioinformatics,Fraud,Genetics,Interviewing,Law Enforcement,Qualitative Research Interviewing,Research Experience,Next Generation Sequencing,Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 220000 - 220000