That’s kind of a shitty way to put it. Mira wasn’t a PM at OpenAI. She was CTO and before that VP of Engineering. Prior to OpenAI she was an engineer at Tesla on the Model X and Leap Motion.
You’re right that she’s not a published ML researcher like Ilya, but "right place, right time" undersells leading the team that shipped ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4.