Communications Lead, Cyber

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.

Were looking for a senior communications leader to shape how OpenAI communicates about cybersecurity.

This person will define the global narrative lead communications for major product research and business milestones and build sustained programs that explain how OpenAI is helping advance cyber defense while managing the risks created by increasingly capable models.

The role will connect OpenAIs work across cybersecurity products and capabilities responsible deployment threat intelligence enterprise security research and public policy. You will work closely with Security Product Research Preparedness Safety Global Affairs Go-to-Market Legal and Marketing to anticipate opportunities and risks develop coordinated communications and build trust with security practitioners customers policymakers and the public.

This is both a strategic and hands-on role. The right person will be comfortable defining a long-term communications strategy building the systems and relationships needed to execute it and personally leading through major launches technical disclosures and fast-moving issues.

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

• Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAIs cybersecurity work from global narrative development through launches research threat reporting and sustained storytelling.

• Build a clear differentiated story about how OpenAI can strengthen cyber defense while developing and deploying advanced capabilities responsibly.

• Lead communications for major cybersecurity products model capabilities research partnerships policy initiatives and company milestones.

• Partner closely with the Product and Research Communications team along with Security Product Research Preparedness Safety Global Affairs Go-to-Market Legal and Marketing to deliver coordinated communications across earned owned executive and social channels.

• Own media engagement and build trusted relationships with leading cybersecurity technology national-security policy and business press.

• Advise senior leadership on positioning messaging launch strategy reputation and communications for high-visibility or fast-moving security issues.

• Translate complex technical security product and policy decisions into clear and credible communications while establishing messaging systems and operating rhythms that keep teams aligned.

• 12 years of communications experience with deep experience in cybersecurity security technology threat intelligence national security infrastructure or another highly technical field.

• Strong press instincts and relationships with a track record of shaping narratives and landing meaningful coverage with cybersecurity technology policy or business media.

• Enough technical fluency to work credibly with security researchers engineers threat analysts product leaders and technical journalists.

• Experience communicating consequential products research threat findings vulnerabilities incidents or policy issues in high-scrutiny environments.

• Exceptional judgment about accuracy transparency confidentiality and the risks created by imprecise language.

• Skill advising senior executives and technical leaders through high-visibility moments with calm and clarity.

• The ability to move fluidly between setting the strategy and executing the details while aligning diverse stakeholders behind a coherent story.

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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