Research Communications Manager, Safety

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, overst...