Policy Communications Manager

About the Team

OpenAI’s 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 team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI.

About the Role

We’re 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 experience. In-house leadership is a must, government experien...