South America Lead, Global Affairs (Sao Paulo)

About the Team

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Achieving this goal requires more than cutting-edge researchit demands deep ongoing engagement with the policymakers communities institutions and partners shaping the future of AI.

The Global Affairs team leads this engagement. We cultivate authentic collaborative relationships with public officials regulators civil society community stakeholders and the broader AI policymaking community to ensure diverse perspectives inform our work. By bringing external insights into OpenAI and sharing our learnings transparently we help advance thoughtful regulation responsible industry standards and governance frameworks that promote the safe and beneficial development of AI technologies.

In close partnership with our research product and policy colleagues the LATAM Public Policy team leads our Global Affairs engagement across all of Latin America working across countries to anticipate emerging issues craft forward-looking strategies and champion policies that align technological progress with human values. Our mission is to help shape the global conversation on AI and ensure that the benefits of this transformative technology reach people everywhere. Examples of priority markets in the region include Brazil Argentina Colombia and Chile.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking a strategic entrepreneurial and highly capable leader to serve as our South America this role you will build and execute OpenAIs public policy and strategic engagement efforts across South Americaduring a period of exceptional momentum for AI governance innovation and infrastructure development.

Reporting to the Head of LatAm Public Policy you will lead OpenAIs work with the governments in South America regulators academic institutions industry partners civil society and the broader South American innovation ecosystem. You will anticipate and shape political policy and regulatory trends support public-sector and enterprise adoption of AI technologies and identify opportunities for strategic partnerships across the region.

This role will involve:

Strategy & leadership:

• Develop and implement OpenAIs Public Policy strategy in South America aligning global priorities with political policy and partnership opportunities at the regional level.

Stakeholder & political engagement:

• Cultivate direct relationships with federal state and city-level policymakers regulators ministerial officials and civil society leaders.

• Anticipate and shape legislative regulatory and political developments related to AI and any other matters relevant to OpenAI such as innovation safety infrastructure and economic development.

Partnerships & ecosystem building:

• Identify and develop partnerships across finance academia agriculture industry and the health sector to enable responsible AI deployment.

• Support enterprise and public-sector adoption of AI tools collaborating closely with OpenAIs commercial and technical teams.

Implementation & execution:

• Translate strategy into implementation plans with clear timelines partner engagement plans goals and deliverables.

• Produce insights memos activity updates and recommendations for internal and executive audiences.

• Organize and lead meetings events roundtables and official engagements across Brazil Argentina Colombia Chile and other countries.

Cross-functional collaboration:

• Work closely with research engineering product legal communications and partnerships teams to align policy strategies with technical roadmaps and company priorities.

• Ensure South American perspectives inform OpenAIs global work on safety governance and deployment.
  

Youll thrive in this role if you:

• Are a seasoned operator at the intersection of public policy technology and government relations comfortable navigating complex rapidly evolving environments.

• Are a relationship-builder who earns trust with senior leaders in government academia and industry.

• Enjoy working in a high-energy start-up-style environment and are willing to roll up your sleevesoperating with humility good judgment and optimism.

• Thrive both independently and as part of a collaborative high-performing peer-led team.

• Are a compelling communicator who can translate complex technical and policy concepts into clear persuasive narratives for diverse audiences.

• Are energized by cross-functional work and can bring technical legal commercial and operational teams together around shared goals.
  

Were looking for a blend of:

• 15 years of experience in public policy government relations technology policy economic development or a related field.

• Demonstrated success engaging federal governments across multiple jurisdictions.

• Proven ability to shape legislation or regulation lead high-stakes policy campaigns or build strategic partnerships across public and private sectors.

• Experience advising senior executives on political regulatory and public-affairs risks and opportunities.

• Deep knowledge of South Americas political regulatory and economic ecosystemincluding AI-related issues such as copyright safety privacy innovation competition and infrastructure.

• Outstanding communication negotiation and interpersonal skills with a track record of influencing senior stakeholders.

• Experience working cross-functionally across legal research communications commercial and policy teams.

• Strong strategic judgment integrity situational awareness and political instincts.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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