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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building the infrastructure required to support the next generation of frontier AI systems. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and self-built data center campuses, we are scaling the power, cooling, electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure needed to deliver compute at unprecedented scale. The Commissioning organization is responsible for ensuring this infrastructure is safely tested, validated, integrated, and transitioned into reliable operations. For our self-build campuses, the team operates through a hybrid delivery model: OpenAI provides commissioning leadership, discipline ownership, governance, and project integration, while commissioning partners provide field and test engineering capacity to support inspections, startup, testing, and turnover. About the Role We are seeking a Commissioning Project Lead to own the commissioning strategy and execution for a large-scale, self-build data center project. You will lead the overall commissioning program from early construction planning through startup, functional testing, integrated systems testing, and final turnover. You will establish the commissioning execution plan, integrate commissioning activities into the master project schedule, coordinate multidisciplinary readiness, and lead the vendor commissioning partners providing field and test engineering capacity. This role serves as the primary commissioning interface to project leadership, construction management, contractors, equipment vendors, operations, and commissioning partners. You will be responsible for creating clarity across organizations, identifying readiness and schedule risks early, and ensuring the facility progresses through testing and turnover against clearly defined acceptance criteria. The role will initially support planning and coordination in a hybrid capacity and transition to full-time onsite presence as construction, inspections, startup, testing, and t

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, and other strategic communications functions. This 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 We’re looking for a senior communications leader to shape how OpenAI communicates about its emerging ads and monetization business. This person will define the global narrative, lead communications for major product and business milestones, and build sustained programs that explain our approach to ads and monetization clearly and credibly. The role will be central to showing how OpenAI can develop advertising experiences that are useful to people, valuable to businesses, transparent in how they work and consistent with our mission. You will work closely with Product, Go-to-Market, Marketing, Policy, Legal and Partnerships to anticipate opportunities and risks, develop integrated campaigns and help the business scale with trust. You will also serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on positioning, reputation, media strategy and the broader industry conversation. This is both a strategic and hands-on role. The right person will be comfortable defining a long-term communications strategy, building the systems and relationships needed to execute it, and personally leading through high-profile launches and fast-moving issues. This role reports to the VP of Communications and is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days per week in the office and offer relocation assistance In this role, you will: Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s ads and monetization initiatives, from global narrative development through launches and sustained storytelling. Build a clear, differentiated story about how OpenAI approache

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Customer Education plays an important role in that mission by helping people and organizations use increasingly capable AI systems effectively, responsibly, and with confidence. We help customers build the confidence and practical skills to use OpenAI effectively, change how work gets done, and realize lasting value. About the Role Helping organizations adopt AI takes more than access to powerful technology. People across the workforce need the skills and confidence to use it well. Within Customer Education, you will lead the enterprise learning program and team. You will set direction, develop the team, and build a clear, high-quality learning portfolio that moves customers from first learning to confident use and meaningful business impact. This is a rare opportunity to define how customers learn with OpenAI at global scale, alongside the teams shaping the technology. In this role, you will: Lead and develop a high-performing Customer Learning team. Own the customer-facing Learn experience, curriculum, and program portfolio—from strategy through results. Turn priority customer needs into role-based tracks, paths, and high-quality programs. Make the portfolio easy to understand, with clear starting points, progression, and relationships among experiences. Lead how learning reaches customers through owned and partner channels. Use customer and product evidence to measure impact and decide what to build, scale, improve, defer, or stop. You might thrive in this role if you: Build strong teams, grow talent, and create accountability. Shape education strategy from customer needs and turn it into programs with measurable impact. Make clear portfolio choices about investment, capacity, and focus. Turn complex learning into clear journeys customers can understand and use. Reach customers through owned and partner channels, building trust across teams. Qualifications

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team At OpenAI, our User Safety & Risk Operations (USRO) team helps protect our products and users from abuse, fraud, safety risks, and other forms of misuse. We operate at the front line of real-world safety and risk management, translating user and operational signals into timely decisions, effective interventions, and improvements to our systems. This role sits on a team focused on building operational capacity for new, ambiguous, and fast-moving areas of work. The team defines what needs to be built, creates the operating model to support it, and works with partner teams to make the work scalable and durable over time. About the Role We are seeking a Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist to build the safety operating model for a new category of consumer hardware. This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who can turn emerging product risks and incomplete requirements into practical workflows, controls, launch plans, and durable systems. You will define how product-safety incidents, critical escalations, regulated cases, and privacy-sensitive issues should be identified, investigated, escalated, resolved, and learned from. You will also establish operational requirements for case management, data access, decision logging, quality assurance, monitoring, and cross-functional response. You will stand up priority workflows through launch and early operations, then help transition them into durable homes across USRO and partner teams. The right person combines deep operational judgment with strong technical and hardware product fluency. They can move from executive-level risk framing to detailed workflow design, tabletop exercises, launch readiness, frontline guidance, and post-launch improvement. Location / work model: San Francisco, CA; hybrid, 3 days/week in-office. Please note: This role may involve exposure to sensitive or concerning material. Strong discretion, judgment, and resilience are essential. In This Role, You Will:

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking to build an investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing & Stealth programs. The risk surface for unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, infrastructure, supply chain, manufacturing, and launch-readiness efforts spans employees, vendors, suppliers, logistics partners, physical movement of assets, procurement records, manufacturing workflows, access systems, device telemetry, and adversarial collection. This role is intended to build and run investigations across that specialized environment. In this role, you will: Lead complex SMS investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts. Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs. Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions. Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs. Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Education team is building products that advance how people learn with AI. The team works across higher education institutions, K-12 districts, and country-level partnerships, including applied research on how AI affects learning and cognitive outcomes. The team owns owns ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and related product/research work. The team partners closely with go-to-market, research, Consumer Learning, and model teams to turn education-specific insights into product experiences that can improve ChatGPT more broadly. Some of our recent work: New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes Education for countries Advancements in higher education Early product work - Introducing Study Mode About the Role We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead and manage a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences in ChatGPT. This person will combine technical execution, product judgment, and people leadership: they will write and ship code, manage engineers, and help shape the product direction for how students and Educators use AI. In This Role, You Will Lead and manage a team of three senior full-stack engineers. Build product experiences for ChatGPT Education, ChatGPT for Teachers, and AI-native learning workflows. Partner with research teams on field studies, randomized control trials, classifiers, data pipelines, and cognitive-outcome measurement. Collaborate with Consumer Learning and model teams to translate education insights into broader ChatGPT behavior and product improvements. Drive execution across product, engineering, research, go-to-market, and partner teams. Help define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for a new product pod. You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have several years of direct people-management experience with engineers. Are still highly technical and comfortable doing IC engineering work. Have strong pr

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Order to Cash (OTC) team oversees the end-to-end flow of commercial transactions from order intake and provisioning through billing, collections, credit risk, accounts receivable operations, and cash application. The team focuses on accuracy, compliance, operational discipline, and a high-quality customer experience. About the Role We are hiring for the Senior Credit & Collections role to support OpenAI's global receivables operations, with a focus on white-glove support for premier and strategic accounts across the U.S. and key regional areas of AR work, including standard operating procedures, payment methods, customer portals, disputes, cash application handoffs, escalations, and emerging go-to-market channels. In this role, you will manage complex customer accounts, guide priority AR workstreams, support credit reviews, and partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Billing Operations, Deal Desk, Legal, Accounting, Cash Application, Finance Systems, and external partners. You will help improve cash collections, reduce aging, support responsible credit decisions, and maintain a strong customer experience across sensitive, high-value, and operationally complex relationships. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In This Role, You Will Manage a portfolio of premier, strategic, and high-touch customer accounts across the U.S. and key regional AR work areas, ensuring timely collections, clear communication, and a white-glove customer experience. Support collections coverage across key regional areas of AR work, including payment follow-up, documentation requirements, portal submission workflows, tax or invoicing considerations, dispute coordination, and escalation management. Support new channel success, including marke

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The legal industry team works with law firms, in-house legal departments, legal technology companies, and other members of the legal ecosystem to understand how AI can support serious professional work. The team collaborates across Product, Research, Engineering, Design, Go-to-Market, Partnerships, Safety, Security, and Legal. We believe the strongest progress in legal will be built with the ecosystem. Our goal is to help customers and partners use OpenAI's capabilities in ways that are useful, trustworthy, and complementary to the products, expertise, and relationships that already serve the field. About the Role As a Product Manager you will help lead OpenAI's work with the legal industry. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role for someone who can turn incomplete information into clear priorities and shipped work. We’re looking for people who will spend time with customers and partners, work closely with researchers, engineers, designers, and operators, and keep complex work moving across teams. You will have meaningful ownership, but your success will depend as much on collaboration, follow-through, and judgment as on strategy. Success will depend on detailed, behind-the-scenes work in a fast-moving environment that can sometimes be chaotic. The right person will work very hard, get their hands dirty, and stay calm when the path is unclear. The work is also important and substantive: you will help shape how powerful technology is used in a consequential profession. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Turn customer, partner, market, and model evidence into a clear product strategy and roadmap for OpenAI’s work with the legal industry—including what to build, what not to build, and where ecosystem partners should lead. Define requirements and take products from early concept through real-world use and iteration.

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Business Marketing team helps organizations understand, adopt, and create value with AI. Integrated Marketing connects our brand, products, customers, developer communities, go-to-market teams, and commercial priorities into coherent market moments. We are building an AI-native marketing team that moves quickly, uses intelligence to work differently, and measures success by whether business audiences become aware of OpenAI, consider our products, and ultimately choose us. About the Role We’re hiring an integrated marketer to shape how businesses understand, experience, and choose OpenAI. You’ll connect our brand, products, and customer stories into campaigns that demonstrate how AI is transforming organizations and establish OpenAI as a preferred partner for businesses adopting AI. You’ll build integrated campaigns for BDMs, and grow customer relationships through storytelling as a critical source of proof of enterprise transformation.. This role is part of the Integrated Marketing team within OpenAI’s Business Marketing organization. While your specialty is brand and customer, you’ll flex across business campaigns, product launches, and other priority market moments. In this role, you will: Lead integrated brand marketing strategies and campaigns that increase awareness, consideration, and preference among enterprise buyers and business decision makers. Synthesize audience research, cultural/competitive context, product truth, customer proof, and business priorities into positioning and creative briefs that can travel across paid, owned, earned, social, field, and sales channels. Connect brand, creative, customer marketing, communications, media, growth, demand generation, and field activation into one coherent business audience journey. Use AI to uncover insights, experiment with new storytelling formats, and accelerate high-quality execution. Be directly accountable for increasing unaided awareness, consideration, purchase preference, and

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI is building Procurement of the future: one that uses AI-enabled systems, clean data, and scalable processes to help the business absorb increasing complexity, speed, volume, and throughput while enabling teams across OpenAI to operate more strategically and at greater scale while managing risk responsibly. The Procurement Operations team supports the operational flow of purchasing across OpenAI, helping teams turn business needs into complete, policy-aligned, and executable procurement activity. We partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Systems, and business teams to improve how requests, suppliers, purchase orders, approvals, data, documentation, and downstream handoffs move through our systems. As OpenAI scales, we are building procurement operations that can absorb increasing complexity without adding unnecessary friction. That means using AI thoughtfully, simplifying where we can, strengthening operating discipline where we must, and continuously improving how our stakeholders experience procurement. About the Role We are hiring two Senior Managers, Procurement Operations to manage the operational backbone of how OpenAI turns requests into committed, controlled, and payable spend. One role will focus on Technology categories, and the other will focus on Corporate Services categories. These roles are not removed from the work. You will be expected to review requests in the system, make or guide request and PO updates, resolve operational issues, and use that firsthand view to identify what needs to change. You will push the envelope without losing the thread on risk, staying close enough to the details to understand where friction, ambiguity, and control gaps show up. You will help improve procurement outcomes across intake, purchase requests, PO quality, supplier coordination, approval workflows, documentation, service delivery, and downstream financial handoffs. You will oversee and improve oper

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. 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

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building the physical infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s largest-scale AI systems. We design, deploy, and operate next-generation compute infrastructure across a rapidly expanding global footprint, combining OpenAI-owned infrastructure with strategic cloud and infrastructure partners to support frontier AI workloads. As our infrastructure footprint grows, operational excellence across third-party providers becomes increasingly critical. Our team ensures external infrastructure partners consistently deliver the reliability, performance, and operational maturity required to support OpenAI’s rapidly expanding compute environment. About the Role We are seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Partner Operations to lead operational delivery across OpenAI’s third-party infrastructure partners, including major cloud service providers and strategic compute vendors. In this role, you will serve as the primary operational program manager for external infrastructure partners, driving accountability for service delivery, operational readiness, incident management, performance reporting, and continuous operational improvement. You will work closely with partner engineering and operations teams while coordinating internally across Hardware Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Capacity Planning, Networking, Supply Chain, Deployment, Reliability Engineering, and executive leadership. Success in this role requires someone who understands how hyperscale infrastructure organizations operate, can establish strong operational governance with external partners, and is comfortable driving complex technical programs without direct ownership of the underlying infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Own operational engagement with third-party infrastructure providers, ensuring consistent execution against operational commitments, service-level agreements (SLAs), and performance expectations. Develop operationa

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Treasury team is responsible for protecting liquidity, enabling scale, maintaining strong controls, and helping the company operate with clarity and resilience. We work across finance and operational partners to ensure funds move safely, visibility remains high, and Treasury infrastructure keeps pace with a fast-moving business. As hands-on operators and builders, we combine financial judgment with AI, automation, and data to solve problems faster, strengthen controls, and continuously improve how Treasury operates. About the Role We’re looking for a Treasury Manager to own and execute critical activities across OpenAI’s global treasury operations, including cash management, payments, bank account management, forecasting support, controls, and reporting. Beyond day-to-day operations, this person will support Treasury leadership on high-impact projects such as M&A integrations, new legal entity formation, and geographic and currency expansion. They’ll also help build scalable, AI-enabled systems, workflows, and controls for a rapidly growing global business. This is an individual contributor role with broad scope, spanning operational ownership and building an AI-native Treasury function. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own core global treasury operations across cash positioning, payments, bank account management, portal administration, forecasting support, and FBAR preparation. Coordinate day-to-day execution for intercompany funding, settlements, investment operations, letters of credit, guarantees, treasury close, and related accounting handoffs. Automate and scale treasury workflows for request intake, approvals, payment tracking, bank account changes, KYC follow-up, access reviews, evidence collection, and issue resolution. Identify recurring processes, manual pain points, duplicate work, control

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Monetization team is a cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation. Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses. This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to build measurement systems that connect ad interactions to meaningful advertiser outcomes while protecting user privacy. In this foundational role, you’ll design infrastructure for conversion signals, attribution, reporting, and feedback loops across OpenAI’s ads products. This role is ideal for engineers who have built large-scale ads measurement, data, experimentation, marketplace, or distributed systems and want to apply that experience in a highly ambiguous 0→1 environment. You’ll work across event collection and normalization, deduplication and matching, attribution and modeled measurement, privacy-safe aggregation, reporting, and high-quality labels for ads optimization. We are hiring engineers who can independently own complex systems, make sound technical tradeoffs, and help define what should be built. You’ll work closely with Ads Delivery, Ads ML, Product, Research, Privacy, Data Sc

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports OpenAI’s mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. The Internal Communications team aims to create clarity, trust, and shared understanding that inspires our employees to do their best work. About the Role We are looking for an Internal Communications professional to support our Enterprise and & Growth portfolio, specifically B2B, Revenue, Partnerships, Marketing, Enterprise Engineering, Ads, and Commerce teams. This role is well suited for a highly organized communicator who writes clearly, learns quickly, brings calm execution to a fast-moving environment, and enjoys finding creative ways to keep employees informed and connected. In this role, you will: Support day-to-day internal communications for the Enterprise & Growth portfolio, including product, partnership, leadership, and organizational announcements. Help plan and execute internal events for supported executives and teams, including org-wide All Hands, managers meetings, Q&As, leadership AMAs, employee engagement moments, and launch-related gatherings. Support logistics and execution for company-wide customer storytelling programs, bringing customer insights, examples, and impact stories to employees. Monitor high-traffic Slack channels and other employee feedback signals across supported teams to identify emerging questions, information gaps, and opportunities to improve clarity or connection. Maintain intake and calendar, tracking key moments, milestones, dependencies, audiences, and review timelines. Contribute to broader Internal Communications priorities as needed, bringing flexibility, curiosity, and strong follow-through across the team. You might thrive in this role if you have: 3+ years of experience in internal communications, event coordination, market

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