OpenAI org chart template

OpenAI org chart at a glance

The chart describes OpenAI as of August 2026.

• Chief executive: Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder.
• Company: OpenAI Group PBC, controlled by the non-profit OpenAI Foundation.
• Headquarters: San Francisco, California.
• Employees: about 4,500.
• Revenue: $13.1 billion (2025).
• On the chart: 17 people in three levels, grouped by executive, applications, infrastructure, research, finance and revenue, legal and compliance, global affairs and people.

Who reports to Sam Altman

OpenAI is organized by function. Each of these leaders reports to Altman.

• Greg Brockman: President and co-founder. Vijaye Raji (CTO, Applications), Thibault Sottiaux (Head of Core Products), Nick Turley (Head of Enterprise Products) and Sachin Katti (Vice President, Compute Strategy & GPT-Infra) report to him.
• Jason Kwon: Chief Strategy Officer.
• Brad Lightcap: Lead, Special Projects (formerly Chief Operating Officer).
• Jakub Pachocki: Chief Scientist.
• Mark Chen: Chief Research Officer.
• Sarah Friar: Chief Financial Officer.
• Denise Dresser: Chief Revenue Officer.
• Che Chang: General Counsel.
• Scott Schools: Chief Compliance Officer.
• Chris Lehane: Chief Global Affairs Officer. Aaron Chatterji, Chief Economist, reports to him.
• Arvind KC: Chief People Officer.

How OpenAI is organized, in brief

OpenAI's operating company is functional: research, applications, compute, finance, revenue, legal and people each report to the CEO, and no one below him runs a business with its own profit and loss. There is no general manager of ChatGPT.

QueryChart, the platform OrgTree.app is built on, has the full analysis: how OpenAI's structure works, why it is set up that way, its trade-offs, and the sources behind every line.

• OpenAI organizational structure: the full analysis on QueryChart

Use the OpenAI org chart as a template

Most people open a company chart to borrow its shape, not its names. Duplicate the chart above and it opens in the editor as a people sheet: one row per person, with a name, a title, a department and who they report to.

Rename the people to your own team, delete the branches you do not need, and add rows for open roles you plan to hire. Change someone's Reports To cell and their whole branch moves with them; change a department and the colours follow. The layout redraws itself as you type.

What to borrow from OpenAI's structure:

• In a young company, a functional chart with every leader under the CEO keeps decisions fast; plan for when the span gets too wide.
• If two people share leadership of a discipline, like research at OpenAI, draw them as peers with clear remits rather than inventing a hierarchy.
• When a role is removed, show where its responsibilities went, so people know who now owns them.
• Show governance (a foundation, a board) above the chart rather than inside it, so ownership and management are not confused.

Sources and accuracy

OpenAI publishes no consolidated leadership page. This chart is an independent reconstruction from OpenAI's announcements, press reporting and leadership trackers, as of August 2026. Titles below the top few are corroborated rather than official, and the placement of the product and infrastructure leaders under Greg Brockman is an inference, not a line OpenAI has published.

OrgTree.app is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by OpenAI. All trademarks belong to their owners.

• OpenAI: Our structure (Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC)
• OpenAI: Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer
• TechCrunch: OpenAI executive shuffle: new roles for COO Brad Lightcap and Fidji Simo (3 Apr 2026)
• TechCrunch: Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's No. 2 role (9 Jul 2026)
• OpenAI organizational structure: the full analysis on QueryChart

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