Lead, External Communications

About the Team
The External Communications team supports OpenAIs mission by helping the organization communicate clearly responsibly and effectively with external audiences. The team works closely with partners across the company to navigate complex topics manage evolving narratives and ensure OpenAIs communications reflect its values and long-term goals.

About the Role
As a senior leader on the External Communications team you will help shape and execute OpenAIs external communications strategy across a range of high-visibility topics. This role requires strong judgment comfort operating in fast-moving environments and the ability to partner closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams. You will be hands-on in moments that require clarity speed and thoughtful decision-making while also contributing to longer-term narrative development and communications planning.

This role is based in San Francisco New York or Washington DC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance where applicable.

Youll be responsible for:

• Leading external communications strategy and execution across priority issues announcements and narratives.

• Partnering closely with senior leaders across Communications Legal Global Affairs Product Research and other teams to align on messaging and approach.

• Providing guidance and hands-on support for communications related to fast-moving or evolving stories including situations that require timely response.

• Drafting and reviewing external materials including statements talking points and background materials across media social and owned channels.

• Helping establish clear communications principles best practices and guidance that support consistent high-quality external engagement.

• Contributing to the development of durable narratives FAQs and reference materials that support the companys long-term communications goals.

• Exercising judgment on when and how to engage publicly to add clarity correct factual inaccuracies or provide relevant context.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are a seasoned communications leader with experience navigating complex or high-visibility issues.

• Are comfortable operating in fast-paced ambiguous environments where priorities can shift quickly.

• Enjoy being directly involved in execution as well as strategy.

• Can build trust and alignment with executives and cross-functional partners.

• Bring strong judgment calm under pressure and a bias toward thoughtful action.
  

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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