Research Communications Manager

OpenAI Communications Professional

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
• Partner Deeply with Researchers
• Lead Proactive Storytelling & Content Strategy
• Support Research Launches & Publications
• Build Cross-Functional Partnership
• Engage in Risk Anticipation & Mitigation

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 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.
• Experience developing proactive storytelling strategies across multiple channels, including blogs, media, video, podcasts, events, or long-form content.
• Experience managing multiple work streams in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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.