OpenAI

Scaling fast

Research Services San Francisco, CA Watching 7,299 employees Updated as of Jul 18

The read

Over 90 days, OpenAI added 158 people — net +142 — with operations absorbing nearly half the intake (120 hires) as engineering drew 87. The firm is pulling talent from AWS (14), Meta (8), and Salesforce (7), signaling an enterprise-infrastructure buildout. Two VP-level enterprise leaders joined (B2B Strategy & Ops, Financial Services) while the Head of Americas Solutions Engineering departed to Anthropic, part of a three-person flow to that rival. Promotions elevated consumer marketing (Interim CMO) and compute infrastructure leadership, pointing to dual commercial and technical scale-up.

+1% of staff
Net headcount · 90d: +129; mostly Operations
New hires · 90d: 143; vs 143 hires
Departures · 90d: 14; quiet
Leadership moves · 90d: 0

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Hiring paceCooling

New hires per month, last 12 months. 271 total hires.

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Notable moves

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

50 people joined Operations Aggregate
33 people joined Aggregate
15 people joined Aggregate
8 people joined Aggregate
7 people joined Aggregate
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Where they're growing

Net change by function, last 90 days.

Operations +49

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Talent flow

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

Recruiting from

Amazon Web Services (AWS)+13

Meta+8

Salesforce+7

Google+6

Snowflake+4

Palantir Technologies+3

Departing to

Anthropic−3

Blue Origin−1

CConsolidated Precision Products Corp−1

Generalist−1

Robinhood−1

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