Liz Wamai has joined OpenAI as head of recruiting after more than three years at Netflix, according to a LinkedIn post. Prior to Netflix, Wamai held recruiting roles at Meta and Bloomberg, as well as finance-related recruiting positions at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs. OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by the end of the year, the Financial Times reported. Other recent hires include former Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig to lead its product team for the legal industry and Salesforce AgentExchange CEO Brian Landsman as vice president of global partnerships. Clint Gibler also announced on X that he joined OpenAI as a member of the technical staff. Former OpenAI employees Clive Chan and Andrej Karpathy have left to join rival Anthropic. Earlier this month, OpenAI submitted a confidential draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the SEC, stating, “We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it.”