Travel Operations Lead

About the Team

The Procurement organization enables our mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. As a key part of this function, this role reports to the Head of Travel & Expense (T&E) and partners closely with Procurement Operations, Accounting, Finance, and business stakeholders to own and scale the company's global Events strategy, operations, and compliance.

About the Role

We are looking for a Travel Operations Lead to own and mature the operating model behind OpenAI's executive and employee travel programs. This role will be hands-on in executive travel support while also building the policies, supplier relationships, data, systems, and AI-enabled workflows that allow the program to scale with speed, confidentiality, safety, and control.

This person will oversee high-touch executive travel support, including complex commercial travel globally; manage travel agency and supplier performance; own the executive travel policy; and partner with Executive Business Partners to ensure travelers receive timely, high-quality support. The role will also own core employee travel operations, TMC support, on-the-road escalation management, executive travel reporting for tax and compliance purposes, and guest T&E programs.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for someone who understands the nuance of the travel industry and can operate at scale while continuously improving the system. This person will be hands-on in executive travel support and will own the policy, operation, supplier relationships, and support model that enable safe, efficient, and high-quality travel.

The right person will bring strong operational judgment, high attention to detail, and the ability to adjust policies, programs, and tools as OpenAI scales. They will also bring a practical vision for AI and agentic enablement across the travel support ecosystem, knowing where AI can reduce manual work, where human review matters, and how to build trust in ne...