Developer Communications & Community Manager

About the Team

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our Communications team includes PR/Media Relations Internal Communications Events Design Community & Social and other strategic comms functions. This teams ethos is to support OpenAIs mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology values and approach to safely building powerful AI.

About the Role

The OpenAI developer community is growing rapidly. Today millions of developersfrom students and indie hackers to startup builders and professional engineersare building with our API Codex and ChatGPT. Were looking for someone to join OpenAIs external communications team to connect with and empower developers online and offline and build programs and content that help them learn from each other and amplify their work.

This role exists to build a thriving global developer ecosystem around OpenAI by owning our early-access and Developer Labs programs end-to-end scaling community activation globally and building trusted relationships with the developers and creators who shape how the world understands our platform. Reporting into the Head of Platform & Research Comms youll partner closely with Developer Experience Research Product Product Marketing Communications and regional teams to create year-round programming that helps developers succeedand brings their voice back into OpenAI..

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Own and operate the Developer Labs & Early Access program end-to-end including cohort selection onboarding support insight synthesis and experience quality.

• Partner with Product Ops and technical teams to translate program insights into clear product feedback and ensure the developer perspective is represented in decision-making.

• Collaborate with Social Marketing and DevEx to create high-impact launch and momentum content that clarifies product value for developers.

• Manage engagement across OpenAIs developer community platforms ensuring they remain high-signal inclusive and valuable.

• Act as the primary steward of the developer voice bringing community insights to product and cross-functional teams to shape narrative and experience.

• Grow engagement with emerging developer communities particularly around Codex open-weight models and new developer surfaces.

• Own relationships with developer influencers and early-access participants fostering trusted partnerships and meaningful visibility opportunities.

• Co-create tutorials demos walkthroughs and narrative content with advanced developers that showcase real-world workflows and inspire adoption.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 7 years of experience in developer relations developer marketing or developer communications

• Track record of designing and scaling developer programs

• Strong understanding of AI startup landscape technical concepts and developer workflows

• Experience fostering and managing communities online and offline with empathy for developers and fluency in their needs.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly

• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities

• Creative instincts and an eye for trends in developer culture; strong taste and ability to identify what resonates with developers

• Nice to have: Ability to code and/or fluency in SQL

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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