{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d218a1cc1c0e43fa8a335951","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d218a1cc1c0e43fa8a335951","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d218a1cc1c0e43fa8a335951","title":"Research Communications Manager","description":"About The Team\r\nOpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.\r\nAbout The Role\r\nOpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and in partnership with applied and engineering teams to shape how OpenAI's scientific work is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public.\r\nThis position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI's research—from foundational model advances to applied science collaborations—ensuring accuracy, nuance, and alignment with OpenAI's long-term goals. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical fluency, excellent storytelling instincts, and experience navigating complex, high-stakes narratives.\r\nYou will partner closely with research leadership, individual researchers, policy, product, and cross-functional communications teams. This role requires both strategic judgment and hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment where research, product, and public discourse intersect.\r\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA and follows a hybrid schedule (three days per week in office). Relocation assistance is available.\r\nIn This Role You Will\r\nShape Research Narratives\r\nDevelop clear, credible external narratives around OpenAI's research roadmap, breakthroughs, and long-term scientific direction.\r\nTranslate complex technical work into accessible stories without oversimplifying or overstating impact.\r\nHelp define and reinforce OpenAI's POV on key research topics (e.g., reasoning, alignment, interpretability, scientific discovery).\r\nLead Research-Focused Media Engagement\r\nBuild and maintain trusted relationships with top-tier science, technology, and business journalists.\r\nManage proactive and reactive media engagement related to research announcements, papers, collaborations, and emerging narratives.\r\nPrepare researchers and executives for interviews, briefings, and public appearances.\r\nSupport Research Launches & Publications\r\nPartner with research teams to plan communications for major papers, model releases, evaluations, and science initiatives.\r\nCollaborate with design, editorial, and social teams on blogs, explainers, visuals, and supporting materials.\r\nEnsure launches are grounded in evidence, aligned with policy and safety considerations, and appropriately scoped.\r\nCross-Functional Partnership\r\nWork closely with Product, Policy, Safety, Legal, and Marketing to align research communications with broader company goals.\r\nServe as a communications thought partner to researchers—helping them anticipate questions, risks, and opportunities.\r\nRisk Anticipation & Mitigation\r\nIdentify potential reputational, scientific, or misinterpretation risks early.\r\nDevelop mitigation strategies, Q&A, and guidance for sensitive or high-profile research topics.\r\nHelp ensure OpenAI communicates responsibly about frontier capabilities and limitations.\r\nYou Might Thrive In This Role If You Have\r\n7+ years of experience in research, science, or technology communications.\r\nDemonstrated experience working directly with scientists, engineers, or technical leaders.\r\nStrong understanding of AI, machine learning, or adjacent scientific domains.\r\nExceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone for expert and general audiences.\r\nProven judgment handling complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes narratives.\r\nExperience managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.\r\nStrong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.\r\nComfort operating at both strategic and executional levels.\r\nFamiliarity with academic publishing, peer review, or research collaborations.\r\nAbout OpenAI\r\nOpenAI 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.\r\nEqual Opportunity Employment\r\nWe 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.\r\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .\r\nBackground Checks\r\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\r\nAccommodations\r\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy .\r\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\r\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\r\nFuture Vision\r\nAt 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. 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For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\r\nAccommodations\r\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy .\r\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\r\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\r\nFuture Vision\r\nAt 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. 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