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The roles on this page span a wide spectrum. At one end sit technically demanding policy positions, such as the Model Policy, Chemical & Biological Risk and Model Policy, Frontier Cyber Risk roles at OpenAI, which ask for deep scientific or security domain knowledge applied to AI model governance — writing taxonomies, threat models, and behavioural specifications for model training and deployment.
At the other end are traditional corporate functions: the Treasury Manager at Okta focuses on global liquidity, FX hedging, and bank relationships, while the Staff Product Analyst (Workday Payroll) role manages HR-system configuration and compliance. Between these poles are generalist leadership posts — the Chief of Staff at Workstream works across strategy and operations directly with the CEO, and the Head of Legal Operations & Chief of Staff at Okta combines legal technology management with executive support to the CLO. Finance Manager, Strategic Finance, and FP&A titles suggest budgeting, forecasting, and technology-spend analysis as recurring themes.
The skills table reflects mentions in descriptions across all postings, not explicit requirements, and the sample size covers a single snapshot so proportions may shift. Agent-related skills and SQL appear most frequently, suggesting that familiarity with AI agent concepts and structured data querying comes up often even in non-engineering operations roles. Python and LLM knowledge appear in a meaningful minority, pointing to some technical overlap between operations and AI product work. Cloud platforms and TypeScript appear in relatively few postings.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
The majority of postings on this page ask candidates to work on-site, making fully remote options a clear minority. A sizeable share offer hybrid arrangements. The Head of Legal Operations & Chief of Staff at Okta is stated as hybrid, and the Treasury Manager specifies the San Francisco Bay Area. Where a posting does not state a work mode explicitly, that detail should be treated as not stated rather than assumed from company reputation or headquarters location.
Jobs checked 4 hours ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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