About the Team
OpenAI’s Global Affairs team leads efforts to build trust and understanding of OpenAI’s work among policymakers and key stakeholders worldwide. Internally, the team helps foster understanding of how policymakers, responding to public concerns about risks, approach AI regulation.
The Global Ideas & Insights Team within Global Affairs monitors global sentiment, develops ideas to amplify our key messages, and creates compelling content to communicate effectively with policymakers and the public.
About the Role
The Global Ideas & Insights Team seeks an Editorial Director who is an exceptional editor, team leader, and strategic thinker. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of how public policy is made and how political campaigns are run, expertise in editorial production, and a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams.
Reporting to the Head of Global Ideas & Insights, your responsibilities will include:
Planning, concepting, managing, and editing content for policymaker and public audiences, including op-eds, reports, blog/social posts, video content, polling updates, and briefing documents.
Maintaining an editorial calendar aligned with key company initiatives, milestones, and external developments.
Collaborating across teams to create positive news-making moments, emphasizing the strategic use of polling and first-party data.
Contributing to the evolution of themes and messaging, adapting to shifts in public sentiment and federal and state policies.
As OpenAI pioneers cutting-edge generative AI technologies, you will navigate new challenges and evolving company needs.
In this fast-paced environment, flexibility is key. You will manage dynamic editorial needs and deadlines, resolve tensions, and ensure technical rigor is balanced with accessibility for diverse audiences, including policymakers and opinion leaders.
This collaborative role will involve leveraging strengths across OpenAI’s Communications, Marketing, Legal, and Product teams.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
Are an experienced editor and leader with a proven ability to align diverse perspectives and stakeholder requirements while meeting editorial goals.
Are passionate about seizing opportunities presented by current events to make big and complex ideas and data accessible for broad audiences, and about presenting the right information to the right audiences in the right ways.
Are extremely organized and comfortable tracking fast-moving external circumstances, evolving message pull-through, and a range of details to make sure that every nuance in multiple simultaneous content efforts and initiatives reflect the right balance of interests.
Are deeply interested in the promise and risks of technology and artificial intelligence, and committed to thoughtful communication.
We’re looking for someone with:
Strong leadership skills, including experience managing and empowering diverse teams to achieve their best work.
Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to adapt tone and complexity for varied audiences.
The ability to grasp and develop strategies for addressing multiple public policy and political developments simultaneously.
A proven track record of success in fast-paced, evolving environments.
Collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively with colleagues with diverse perspectives.
Sound judgment, personal integrity, and a commitment to equity and inclusion.
Genuine interest in the societal impact of technology.
Location: This role is based in Washington, DC, with regular travel to participate in meetings and events with key 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
