Senior Product Policy Lead, Regulation

# 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 Scout Share this job:

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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 expertise AI 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.

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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.## Full description

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  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…