OpenAI

Contracting

Research Services San Francisco, CA Watching 2,500 employees Updated as of Jun 24

The read

OpenAI posted a modest net loss of four people over 90 days, but the departures tell a sharper story: the CTO of B2B Applications left, alongside VP-level heads who ran GTM operations (to Anthropic), ChatGPT engineering (to Google), and private equity (to Google). The company is pivoting hard toward enterprise deployment — hiring a head of AI deployment engineering for digital natives and promoting the head of forward deployed engineering to CTO of OpenAI Deployment — while engineering absorbed 21 of 39 new hires. Competitor AI labs and hyperscalers are the clear talent magnets, with Google and Anthropic each pulling at least two departures.

−0.3% of staff
Net headcount · 90d: -25; mostly Engineering
New hires · 90d: 18; vs 18 hires
Departures · 90d: 43; quiet
Leadership moves · 90d: 0

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Hiring paceCooling

New hires per month, last 12 months.

Total 1373 hires

64 joined
Jun 2025

93 joined
Jul 2025

75 joined
Aug 2025

87 joined
Sep 2025

79 joined
Oct 2025

133 joined
Nov 2025

158 joined
Dec 2025

141 joined
Jan 2026

132 joined
Feb 2026

163 joined
Mar 2026

142 joined
Apr 2026

106 joined
May 2026

12 months agoLast month

Notable moves

Hires, exits and promotions over the last 90 days — by role and function, never by name.

15 people left Aggregate
12 people left Aggregate
6 people joined Engineering Aggregate
5 people joined Aggregate
4 people left Aggregate
3 people left Aggregate

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Net change by function, last 90 days.

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