Compensation Operations Analyst at OpenAI in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI’s People team supports a complex, rapidly growing organization of researchers, engineers, and business teams. The Compensation function ensures accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence across all compensation tools, systems, and data flows. About the Role We’re hiring a Compensation Operations Analyst to build and run the systems, tools, and processes that power compensation at OpenAI. This role is deeply operational and technical: you will configure HRIS modules, manage compensation tools end-to-end, maintain pristine data quality, and ensure compensation cycles run flawlessly. You’ll partner closely with People Systems, Total Rewards, Finance, and vendors to keep our compensation infrastructure accurate, scalable, and audit-ready. 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: - Own configuration and day-to-day operations of compensation tools and HRIS compensation modules. - Manage annual and off-cycle compensation processes, ensuring data integrity, testing, quality assurance, and on-time execution. - Build and maintain compensation datasets, dashboards, audits, and data flows across systems. - Lead compensation vendor relationships, including implementation, troubleshooting, and data submissions. - Diagnose and…