Violence Risk & Legal Response Lead
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OpenAIAI
United StatesFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15+ years of relevant experience
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in behavioral threat assessment and targeted violence prevention
- Significant leadership responsibility in behavioral threat assessment
- Experience applying structured methodologies to evaluate real-world risk across a range of threat scenarios
- Experience building or leading threat assessment or violence prevention programs
- Ability to translate complex behavioral signals into practical, defensible frameworks
- Comfortable making or advising on high-stakes, time-sensitive decisions involving potential threats of violence
- Ability to apply sound judgment in ambiguous situations with incomplete information
- Experience working closely with law enforcement, legal, security, and multidisciplinary teams
- Understanding of how to navigate the intersection of safety, privacy, and liability in complex cases
- Track record of contributing to or shaping industry standards, research, or training in threat assessment
- Ability to translate expertise into scalable practices within a technology environment
- Ability to distill complex behavioral and investigative insights into clear, structured guidance
Responsibilities
- Establish expert-informed thresholds for law enforcement referrals related to violent activities.
- Contribute to maturing and growing OpenAI’s efforts to mitigate credible and imminent threat of violence against others.
- Advise on high-risk cases, applying behavioral threat assessment expertise to evaluate user activity for proactive disclosure.
- Ensure alignment with legal obligations, privacy protections, and human rights standards.
- Engage external experts (e.g., mental health professionals, behavioral specialists, and law enforcement) to inform case evaluations and continuously refine OpenAI’s legal and assessment methodologies.
- Ensure OpenAI’s internal protocols, policies, and practices align with professional and industry standards for behavioral threat assessment and risk management while respecting user privacy and free speech rights.
- Represent OpenAI in relevant violence detection and prevention-related external engagements.
- Convene multi-disciplinary experts to advise on recommended guidelines related to law enforcement referrals.
- Collaborate with internal teams on other responses to violent activities, including model responses to concerning user content, and threat detection and assessment efforts including triage for identification of priority matters.
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