OpenAI
Research Communications Manager
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$185,000 to $205,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Other
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
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- Listing mentions "Hybrid" and three days per week in the office
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About the role
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Our Communications 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
OpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and partner deeply with safety researchers, alignment researchers, and cross-functional teams to shape how OpenAI’s safety research is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public.
This position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI’s safety research—from alignment and evaluations to broader work that helps advance the safe development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical fluency, excellent storytelling instincts, and experience helping researchers communicate complex work with clarity, accuracy, and nuance.
You will partner closely with research leadership, individual researchers, policy, product, safety, legal, and cross-functional communications teams. This role requires both strategic judgment and hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment where research, public understanding, and high-stakes safety narratives intersect.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA and follows a hybrid schedule (three days per week in office). Relocation assistance is available.
In this role, you will:
Shape Safety Research Narratives
Develop clear, credible external narratives around OpenAI’s safety research, including alignment, evaluations, preparedness, interpretability, and other areas connected to the safe development of frontier AI.
Translate complex technical work into accessible stories without oversimplifying, overstating impact, or creating unnecessary alarm.
Help define and reinforce OpenAI’s POV on key safety research topics and how they connect to OpenAI’s broader research roadmap and mission.
Partner Deeply with Researchers
Work directly with safety and alignment researchers to understand their work, identify the most important ideas, and help position those ideas publicly.
Serve as a communications thought partner to researchers—helping them anticipate questions, clarify implications, and communicate with precision.
Build communications plans that help researchers share their work through the right channels, at the right level of depth, and with the right context.
Lead Proactive Storytelling & Content Strategy
Develop proactive storytelling opportunities across blogs, explainers, video, podcasts, events, and other channels beyond traditional media.
Help identify creative ways to elevate safety research and make the work more legible to expert and non-expert audiences.
Look across the safety research portfolio to identify broader themes, narrative opportunities, and moments where OpenAI can contribute meaningfully to public understanding.
Support Research Launches & Publications
Partner with research teams to plan communications for major papers, evaluations, model-related research, safety initiatives, and other technical publications.
Collaborate with editorial, design, social, policy, and research teams on blogs, explainers, visuals, briefing materials, and supporting content.
Requirements
- ·7+ years of experience in research, science, technology, or safety-related communications.
- ·Demonstrated experience working directly with scientists, engineers, researchers, or technical leaders.
- ·Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, safety research, alignment, or adjacent technical domains.
- ·Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone for expert and general audiences.
- ·Strong judgment handling complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes narratives.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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