About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. The Communications team shapes how we tell our story externally and align internally on our mission. We manage everything from launches and executive comms to international PR, social, and community. To scale effectively, we need dedicated leaders who can connect dots across channels and ensure our most important stories reach every audience.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Integrated Comms / Storytelling Manager to lead OpenAI’s cross-channel storytelling efforts. In this role, you’ll own the OpenAI Podcast, curate and amplify customer stories, and act as the connective tissue between PR, social, campaigns, and brand strategy. You’ll also experiment with AI-enabled storytelling formats to position our team as a model for the future of comms. The role reports to the Head of Comms Strategy & Ops.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Drive narrative cohesion across comms touchpoints — ensuring OpenAI’s most important messages consistently appear across earned, owned, social, and campaigns.
Lead or co-lead the OpenAI Podcast, shaping it as a flagship storytelling platform.
Build and maintain a customer story database; source, curate, and amplify stories that highlight the impact of our products and mission.
Partner with PR, social, and campaign leads to strengthen narrative pull-through across launches.
Translate AI-driven comms innovations into clear, compelling stories that demonstrate OpenAI’s leadership in building the comms team of the future.
Take on select high-impact writing projects for OpenAI’s CEO, ensuring consistency with broader comms strategy.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 10+ years in communications, executive comms, integrated marketing, or editorial leadership.
Are a strong writer and editor with experience tailoring messages across different formats and audiences.
Have experience running or shaping flagship channels like podcasts, editorial calendars, or major content initiatives.
Excel at collaboration, influencing cross-functional partners, and bringing consistency to complex organizations.
Are comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and energized by shaping new approaches to storytelling.
Are curious about and inspired by AI, and excited to experiment with how it can unlock the next era of comms.
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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