Policy Communications Manager

About the Team

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

Our Communications team includes External Communications Internal Communications and other strategic communications 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

Were seeking to hire an exceptional communications professional to join our small high-impact team to communicate progress on our mission to to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. This person will support policy communications with a focus on national security issues; partnerships with federal state and local governments; cybersecurity; science; and other AI policy areas. This includes partnering with our global affairs legal and product teams to drive external communications that broadly educate on our technology efforts and principles. This role will report to our Head of Policy Communications who is based in Washington D.C.

The ideal candidate should bring a strong mix of strategic and tactical comms ownership. Ability to move fast and collaboratively on complex issues in a changing environment is critical. Passion for new technology and storytelling is key.

In this role you will:

• Develop and execute communication plans including strategies for educating press policymakers and the general public.

• Forge deep relationships with media and manage inbound requests on a range of issues.

• Partner cross-functionally with global affairs legal product and other teams at OpenAI.

• Provide counsel and support to team members across the organization.

• Anticipate comms risks and establish risk mitigation strategies.

You will thrive in this role if you have:

• 10 years of professional communications and media relations -house leadership is a must government experience is a plus.

• Strong track record of driving media campaigns in support of policy priorities and issues.

• Background in technology communications and knowledge of AI.

• Proven success in building relationships and collaborating with press executives partners and other stakeholders.

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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