OpenAI

Scaling fast

Research Services San Francisco, CA Watching 2,500 employees Updated as of Jun 26

The read

OpenAI added a net 379 heads in 90 days, with operations absorbing 98 hires—nearly half the total—signaling infrastructure build-out to support commercial scale. The company lost its CTO of B2B Applications and three VP-level GTM leaders (Global GTM Operations to Anthropic, ChatGPT Atlas engineering to Google, Private Equity coverage also to Google), a sharp concentration of senior go-to-market exits. Arrivals skew commercial: a Field CTO, APAC Mid-Market GTM Leader, and Head of Financial Services, alongside enterprise talent drawn heavily from Salesforce (17) and AWS (15). Three promotions include a new CTO of Deployment and an Interim CMO for Consumer & Hardware, suggesting reorganization to stabilize post-departure gaps.

+4% of staff
Net headcount · 90d: +379; mostly Operations
New hires · 90d: 422; vs 422 hires
Departures · 90d: 43; quiet
Leadership moves · 90d: 0

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Hiring paceCooling

New hires per month, last 12 months. 1386 total hires.

62 joined
Jun 2025

97 joined
Jul 2025

77 joined
Aug 2025

88 joined
Sep 2025

78 joined
Oct 2025

136 joined
Nov 2025

157 joined
Dec 2025

141 joined
Jan 2026

128 joined
Feb 2026

165 joined
Mar 2026

137 joined
Apr 2026

120 joined
May 2026

12 months agoLast month

Notable moves

Hires, exits and promotions over the last 90 days — by role and function.

69 people joined Operations Aggregate
53 people joined Aggregate
29 people joined Aggregate
15 people left Aggregate
14 people joined Aggregate
12 people left Aggregate

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Where they're growing

Net change by function, last 90 days.

Operations +66

+41

+13

+10

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Talent flow

Which companies OpenAI hires from — and loses people to — over the last 90 days.

Recruiting from

SSalesforce+17

AAmazon Web Services (AWS)+14

GGoogle+10

MMeta+6

Microsoft+6

AApple+5

Departing to

CCore Automation−3

Anthropic−2

CCareer Break−2

GGoogle−2

BBlue Origin−1

EEmbrasure−1

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