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F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 22, 2026 • 3 min read

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BirthplacePune, Mumbai, India

ProfessionCorporate Employee

NationalityAmerican

Marital statusMarried

SpouseTom Matthias

FamilyMother: Suchita Nayak; Siblings: 1 brother;

Chaya Nayak Biography

Early life and background Chaya Nayak was born in Pune (Mumbai), India, and later pursued higher education in the United States.

Early life and background
Chaya Nayak was born in Pune (Mumbai), India, and later pursued higher education in the United States. She completed an undergraduate degree in Global Studies — with focuses that included security, peace studies, and Spanish — at the University of Wisconsin. She went on to earn a postgraduate qualification in Public Policy from the University of California.

Career
Nayak’s professional path bridges social-impact work, academia and technology. Her early roles included project management and geospatial work in India and the United States. In 2010 she worked as a Project Manager at Pathways to Empowerment in Pune. Between 2011 and 2012 she served as a Geographic Information Specialist for the City of Milwaukee’s Office of Environmental Sustainability.

While pursuing graduate studies, she held an instructional role at the University of California, Berkeley, where from 2012 to 2014 she was Head Graduate Student Instructor for an intermediate microeconomics course. During that period she also began working with organizations focused on technology and social impact: she joined Samasource in San Francisco in 2013 as an Impact and Program Manager, overseeing teams in India and Africa that prepared training datasets for machine learning and leading studies that assessed the work’s effects on worker income and living standards.

In 2014 Nayak took on short-term consulting roles in the Bay Area, including work at The Ergo Group in Berkeley and the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. She later joined Quid’s Product and Consulting group in San Francisco, managing accounts for large technology companies and venture capital firms and helping translate customer needs into product features.

Her data-focused experience continued at Premise Data Corporation (2015–2016), where she built live dashboards that reported consumer price data for the World Bank using computer vision and map-based analytics to study inflation in multiple countries.

Nayak moved to Meta (Facebook) in October 2016 as Head of Data for Good. She advanced within the company to Product Manager and Head of Research and Transparency in June 2018, and in May 2023 became Director of Product Management in Generative AI based in Menlo Park, California. Her work at Meta included creating products such as Disaster Maps to assist communities during emergencies and addressing challenges around data quality, privacy protection, and secure data spaces through the Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) team. She was involved in high-profile efforts including work during the 2020 US elections and co-authored research on Meta’s effects on democracy published in leading journals.

Nayak also contributed directly to Meta’s AI efforts, working on recent versions of Llama and Meta AI to help tackle hard engineering and societal questions about next-generation models. In August 2025 she left Meta and joined OpenAI in a Special Initiatives role, where she began collaborating with colleagues including a former Meta colleague who joined OpenAI in 2024.

Public profile
Beyond her corporate roles, Nayak has held fellowships and volunteer positions. From 2020 to 2023 she was a First Mover Fellow at The Aspen Institute. She serves as a volunteer Secretary on the Board of Directors and as an Organisational Development Associate at the Sweet Water Foundation in the United States.

Personal life
Chaya Nayak is married to Tom Matthias. Her mother is listed as Suchita Nayak, and she has one brother. She holds American nationality and practices Hinduism. Her personal interests include travel and trekking, and she enjoys foods such as tacos and pizza. She is a non-vegetarian and is described as having black hair and black eyes.

Latest updates
In August 2025 Nayak transitioned from Meta to OpenAI to work in Special Initiatives. Prior to that move she was serving as Director of Product Management in Generative AI at Meta, following earlier leadership roles in data and research transparency.

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Recent Work

Director of Product Management, Generative AI (Meta)

Led product management for generative AI; worked on Llama and Meta AI, research and transparency, and products such as Disaster Maps.

2023–2025
Joined OpenAI, Special Initiatives

Accepted a role in OpenAI’s Special Initiatives department and began collaborating with former colleagues from Meta.

2025
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Career Highlights

  1. Head of Data for Good at Facebook (Meta)
  2. Product Manager and Head of Research and Transparency at Meta
  3. Director of Product Management, Generative AI at Meta
  4. Built live World Bank consumer price dashboards at Premise Data Corporation
  5. Impact and Program Manager at Samasource, managing ML training-data teams in India and Africa
  6. First Mover Fellow at The Aspen Institute
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