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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Launch Programs team is responsible for driving cross-functional planning, readiness, and execution for OpenAI’s most visible and strategic product moments. We partner closely with product teams to understand their goals, requirements, and timelines—then help translate those into clear, actionable plans across marketing, comms, events, and other functions. Our team acts as the connective tissue between builders and storytellers, ensuring that launches are predictable, aligned, and impactful. About the Role As a Launch Program Manager, you’ll play a central role in turning product ambitions into coordinated company-wide launch moments. You’ll work hand in hand with product teams to deeply understand their roadmaps and readiness needs, then drive alignment across marketing, comms, events, and other partners to ensure smooth, high-quality execution. We’re looking for people who: Are exceptional at building alignment across diverse functions and stakeholders Can translate product requirements and timelines into structured, coordinated launch plans Are clear communicators who can operate effectively at both tactical and strategic levels Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoy building structure where it doesn’t yet exist Are skilled at navigating complex product organizations and creating clarity across multiple teams 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: Partner with product teams to understand requirements, roadmaps, and readiness, then translate those into clear launch plans and timelines Drive cross-functional planning and execution across marketing, comms, events, and operations to ensure cohesive, high-quality launches Serve as the central communications hub, driving alignment through clear updates, status reviews, and structured working rhythms Anticipate and proactively address launch risks, sur

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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We are hiring a Security Software Engineer to design and implement the hardware-backed security foundations used across OpenAI’s device ecosystem. A central focus of this role is hardening the boundary between our policy systems and the HSMs that protect sensitive cryptographic keys. This boundary determines which operations may be performed, what may be signed, which policies must be satisfied, and how changes to trusted software and policy are authorized. You will develop security-critical software and firmware within, or immediately adjacent to, an HSM trust boundary. Depending on your background, this may include HSM trusted applications, firmware services, cryptographic mechanisms, device drivers, PKCS#11 components, secure-provisioning protocols, or signing-policy enforcement systems. This is a hands-on software-engineering role. You will be expected to design systems, write and review production code, debug across hardware and software boundaries, and carry projects from initial requirements through deployment. It is not an HSM administration, PKI operations, compliance, or architecture-only position. In This Role, You Will Design and implement security-critical software and firmware for HSMs, secure elements, trusted execution environments, and hardware roots of trust. Build and harden the policy-to-HSM boundary responsible for authorizing certificate issuance and cryptographic signing operations. Develop HSM trusted applications, firmware components, host interfaces, device drivers, SDKs, or cryptographic service integrations. Implement or extend cryptographic interfaces such as PKCS#11, OpenSSL providers or engines, platform key-storage APIs, or comparable hardware-security interfaces. Build firmware and software that cryptographically enforces key generation, provisioning, usage, rotation, recovery, and destruction policies. Design and implement HSM-backed certificate authority, code-signing, key-management, and device-identity systems. Develop end-to-end

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem that accelerates customer success, enables enterprise AI adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase, deploy, and scale OpenAI solutions. We work across cloud providers and their field, product, marketplace, technical, and partner organizations to reduce friction for customers and create repeatable paths from initial interest to production impact. The team collaborates closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to turn strategic cloud relationships into measurable customer and commercial outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, GTM Cloud Partnerships to shape and execute OpenAI’s go-to-market strategy with strategic cloud partners. You will own senior relationships across a portfolio of cloud providers and develop joint business plans that expand customer access to OpenAI’s products, generate partner-sourced opportunities, and accelerate enterprise adoption. You will translate company-level partnerships into practical field motions spanning account planning, co-selling, cloud marketplaces, customer procurement, technical enablement, solution development, and executive engagement. This is a highly strategic and hands-on role. Success requires executive presence, strong commercial judgment, cloud ecosystem expertise, and the operating discipline to coordinate complex initiatives across multiple partners, regions, and internal teams. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between long-term strategy and the detailed execution required to deliver measurable results. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. In this role, you will: Own the strategic and commercial relationships with a top global cloud partner, establishing strong alignm

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$93.6K – $117K/yr

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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Data at Brex The Data organization develops insights, models, and data infrastructure for teams across Brex, including Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations. Our Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers work together to make data—and insights derived from data—a core asset across the company. What you’ll do As a Data Analyst II (DA), you will play a central role in enhancing the operational tracking and reporting capabilities of different business teams across Brex. You will work closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and partner teams to drive meaningful insights for the business through visualizations, self-service tools, and ad-hoc analyses. This is a high-impact role in a fast-paced fintech environment where your work will directly influence strategic decisions. Where you’ll work This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of bein

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of products—and shape how people experience AI in the future. The Operating Systems team is critical in this mission, turning sophisticated hardware and AI capabilities into a reliable, trusted platform. Security is central to that work: we define trust boundaries, integrate hardware-backed protections, isolate sensitive context, and establish the guardrails that let AI applications and agents act safely, privately, and under user control. About the Role We’re looking for a Software Security Architect to define the security architecture for OpenAI’s next-generation operating system. You’ll work alongside hardware security architects and partner with operating system, silicon, firmware, privacy, and product teams to protect users, their devices, and their data. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can connect operating system internals, hardware-backed security, and real-world product constraints. Your work will shape the platform’s trust model, protect sensitive information, and set the technical foundations for AI that is safe, private, and under user control. In this role, you will: Define the operating system’s security architecture, trust boundaries, privilege model, and protections for sensitive user data. Partner with hardware security architects to integrate roots of trust, secure elements, trusted execution environments, and processor security capabilities into the operating system. Desig

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$180K – $200K/yr

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About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role Shipping great software is only half the battle. Getting it to the right customers, at the right time, in the right way, is where the real complexity lives. We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own the end of the EPD pipeline: the moment a feature is built to the moment it's successfully in customers' hands. This person will define what "good" looks like for product launches at Sentry, building the frameworks, playbooks, and operating rhythms that make every release more intentional, more coordinated, and more confident than the last. The foundation is there. Features ship. But the connective tissue between Engineering, Product, Legal, Marketing, go-to-market (GTM), and Sales needs someone who can see the whole system, diagnose what's broken, and build something durable. That's this role. If you're energized by ambiguity, love designing operating models, and want real ownership over a function that touches every team in the company, this is a rare opportunity to define the craft at a company that takes software quality seriously. What You'll Do Define the Launch Standard: Establish what a great product launch looks like at Sentry: the gates, the playbooks, the decision rights, and the rituals. You're not inheriting a fixed process; you're authoring it. Own Feature Flag & Cohort Strategy: Bring intentionality to how Sentry uses early access programs, beta cohorts, and staged rollouts. Make sure the right customers get the right features at the right time, and that we're learning from every rollout. Orchestrate Cross-Functional Readiness: Be the central coordinator who ensures Engineering,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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From $98K/yr

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Datadog is seeking a Field Marketing Manager to support and execute high-impact programs across the North Central region in North America. In this role, you’ll collaborate with regional Sales and Marketing teams to drive pipeline generation and deliver engaging in-person and virtual event experiences. You’ll take ownership of regional marketing initiatives, gaining hands-on experience across campaign strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven marketer looking to make an immediate and measurable impact. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Plan and execute field marketing programs, including Datadog Live events, third-party sponsorships, customer panels, workshops, and executive experiences Manage field projects from planning through execution, ensuring on-time, on-brand delivery Own on-site logistics and execution for smaller, high-touch regional events Collaborate with Sales, Demand Generation, Marketing Ops, and other teams to maximize event engagement Track and analyze program results to evaluate pipeline impact and optimize future campaigns Who You Are: 3–5 years of experience in B2B marketing, preferably in the technology industry Creative and results-oriented, with a strong passion for customer-centric event experiences Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines Independent, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking initiative You communicate clearly and effectively in English, both in writing and speaking. Familiarity with Salesforce, Google Suite, and project management tools is a plus Willingness to travel up to 40% Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day o

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Opportunity Typography is central to how ideas are communicated. If you're passionate about beautifully created design, have deep curiosity about what AI can do, and take personal responsibility for creating products that people love; then this may be the role for you. Adobe Fonts supports millions of creatives in choosing and using typefaces across fonts.adobe.com, Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and more Creative Cloud platforms. Our Internal Services team provides the platform engineering and deployment backbone for all of these. We manage CI/CD, deployment approaches, the services and data layers our engineers depend on, our observability and security stance, and increasingly the agentic tools that transform how our entire organization delivers software. We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead this exciting journey in our San Francisco location. What you'll do Own and evolve our deployment platform. Lead strategy for CI/CD, PR environments, and release safety across a mixed fleet that includes containerized services, serverless services, and static front ends. Build the foundation for AI-accelerated development. Help build our agent factory and grow our internal agentic toolkit and skill library. Ship inference applications at scale. Take greenfield services from spec to production and standardize our ML/inference footprint. Modernize our services for the AI era. Identify where an existing service is held back by its current build and lead the fix. Rethink our security posture for agentic threats. Lead how we secure autonomous agents and their tool use. Expose Adobe Fonts to the agentic ecosystem. Extend our Model Context Protocol (MCP) surface and conversational, intent-based font discovery. Work higher up the stack, too. Contribute directly to search, browse, discovery, and the customer-facing experie

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization’s financial integrity and scalability in pursuit of our mission. Our Financial Reporting team is central to delivering accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant financial information to internal and external stakeholders. We focus on building robust, scalable reporting systems and processes to support rapid organizational growth and complexity. About the Role OpenAI is hiring a Senior Manager, Financial Reporting to help build and run a best-in-class financial reporting engine in a technically complex, rapidly evolving, and high-growth environment. We are looking for a seasoned external reporting professional who pairs strong technical judgment with a roll-up-your-sleeves mindset - owning key reporting deliverables, driving rigorous tie-outs and disclosure quality, and converting ambiguity into audit-ready output. This role will collaborate closely with teams across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and Investor Relations to improve reporting processes, streamline data flows, and elevate how financial information is communicated across stakeholders. 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: Modernize reporting workflows through AI integration — Leverage ChatGPT, Codex, and proprietary AI tools to minimize manual effort and accelerate deep analysis, while maintaining the rigorous judgment and accountability required for high-quality, audit-ready outputs. Own end-to-end financial statements and disclosures — Prepare GAAP financial statements, footnotes, and supporting schedules; maintain rollforwards, tie-outs, and internal consistency checks to ensure outputs are complete and audit-ready. Drive audit readiness and execution — Partner with external auditors to manage day-to-day audit workflow (PBC coordination, support quality, issue resolution) and keep reporting on track with minimal re

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Life sciences is one of the clearest areas where advances in intelligence can meaningfully benefit the world at large. The OpenAI Life Sciences team works at the intersection of advancing frontier life sciences model capabilities and building products to help scientists accelerate their research and leverage the full potential of AI for scientific work. Rosalind Workbench brings together the scientific tools, data sources, interactive biology file viewers and core life sciences workflows into a central environment to help scientists investigate questions, design experiments, analyze results, and advance discovery. Rosalind Workbench can be used with any OpenAI model, including GPT-Rosalind--our dedicated life sciences model, which combines frontier reasoning with specialized tool orchestration across medicinal chemistry, genomics, wet-lab assistance, and other scientific applications. Our long term vision is for teams of agents to work together across these domains, giving researchers access to broader expertise and the ability to pursue more ambitious scientific questions. About the Role We’re looking for a Product Manager to shape Rosalind Workbench for life sciences. You will own product strategy and execution, working directly with researchers in academic labs, biotech, and pharma to understand where AI can meaningfully improve their work. You’ll partner with engineering, research, design, and customer-facing teams to turn emerging capabilities into intuitive products that scientists return to. This role calls for strong product judgment, depth in life sciences, and the ability to move from an ambiguous research problem to a focused, shippable experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define the future of AI guided scientific discovery and build the capabilities and tools that help advance the scientific frontier for researchers and help increase the accessibility of model intelligence for scientific use. This is a chance to shape

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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From $840K/yr

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Overview: Guidepoint’s Client Service team connects leading investment firms, consultancies, and corporations with the subject-matter experts they need to make informed business and investment decisions. By understanding each client’s specific research needs and delivering targeted expert matches, often within hours, the team plays a critical role in providing a fast, high-quality client experience. As an Associate on the Client Service team, you will play a central role in delivering that experience. You will learn how to assess client needs, identify the types of experts best suited to address them, and recruit new experts into Guidepoint’s global network of more than 1,750,000 Advisors. The role offers exposure to a dynamic, results-oriented environment where strong judgment, responsiveness, and the ability to execute across multiple priorities are highly valued. Due to the collaborative nature of the Client Service team, the work schedule is hybrid with three days in the office required. Who We Are: High-performing team driven by execution, accountability, and consistent client impact Client-centric culture where responsiveness, resourcefulness, and attention to detail define how we operate Team committed to developing talent through hands-on mentorship, coaching, and leadership support Workplace that embeds continuous learning and career development as a core part of how we grow and excel Environment where strong performers take on increasing leadership, commercial responsibility, and client ownership Guidepoint is passionate about your career growth: Check out our Client Service Career Trajectory What You Will Own: Recruit new experts into Guidepoint’s network and engage them for client consultations Independently conduct targeted research across LinkedIn, press releases, company websites, case studies, and other public sources to identify relevant subject-matter experts Lead cold outreach, phone-based vetting, and screening conversations with experts to evalu

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Overview: Guidepoint’s Client Service team connects leading investment firms, consultancies, and corporations with the subject-matter experts they need to make informed business and investment decisions. By understanding each client’s specific research needs and delivering targeted expert matches, often within hours, the team plays a critical role in providing a fast, high-quality client experience. As an Associate on the Client Service team, you will play a central role in delivering that experience. You will learn how to assess client needs, identify the types of experts best suited to address them, and recruit new experts into Guidepoint’s global network of more than 1,750,000 Advisors. The role offers exposure to a dynamic, results-oriented environment where strong judgment, responsiveness, and the ability to execute across multiple priorities are highly valued. Due to the collaborative nature of the Client Service team, the work schedule is hybrid with three days in the office required. Who We Are: High-performing team driven by execution, accountability, and consistent client impact Client-centric culture where responsiveness, resourcefulness, and attention to detail define how we operate Team committed to developing talent through hands-on mentorship, coaching, and leadership support Workplace that embeds continuous learning and career development as a core part of how we grow and excel Environment where strong performers take on increasing leadership, commercial responsibility, and client ownership Guidepoint is passionate about your career growth: Check out our Client Service Career Trajectory What You Will Own: Recruit new experts into Guidepoint’s network and engage them for client consultations Independently conduct targeted research across LinkedIn, press releases, company websites, case studies, and other public sources to identify relevant subject-matter experts Lead cold outreach, phone-based vetting, and screening conversations with experts t

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer with deep expertise in physical design and methodology. This individual contributor role sits within our physical design team and is central to delivering power, performance, and area (PPA) optimized datapath and interconnect solutions for next-generation AI accelerators. You’ll work closely with RTL designers to define and execute on physical design strategies. You will develop tools, flows and methodologies to increase team productivity. Your work will directly impact silicon’s performance and cost efficiency, as well as the team’s execution velocity and quality. In this role, you will: Develop, build and own tools, flows and methodologies for physical implementation Own physical implementation of floorplan blocks from floorplanning to final signoff Collaborate with RTL designers to drive optimal block implementation solutions Analyze and optimize design for timing, power, and area trade-offs, working in collaboration with EDA vendors and ASIC partners Qualifications: BS w/ 4+ or MS with 2+ years or PhD with 0-1 year(s) of relevant industry experience in physical design and methodology development Demonstrated success in taping out complex silicon designs Hands-on experience with block physical implementation and PPA convergence Strong coding experience with python, bazel, TCL Strong experience building physical design tools, flows and methodologies Strong understanding of microarchitecture, RTL design,

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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· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports that mission by explaining our technology, our values, and how we safely build powerful AI. We help business leaders see what AI can make possible for their organizations, show how customers use OpenAI’s products, and explain how AI is changing the way people work. About the Role We are looking for a senior product communications leader to own OpenAI’s B2B product story across business, trade, and nontraditional media. You will lead B2B communications for major product and platform moments, translate technical capabilities into clear business value, and build a sustained editorial program grounded in customer proof. Your work will help business leaders understand the problems our products solve and the outcomes they can enable using frontier intelligence. This is an exceptionally fast-paced, hands-on role that spans every altitude of communications. You will move from setting strategic positioning and shaping executive narratives to writing launch materials, developing media pitches, and delivering the details that make a story land. Working closely with Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and our central Product Communications team, you will identify buyer needs, substantiate our claims, and carry a clear, consistent B2B story into the market. This role reports to the Head of Business Communications. In this role, you will: Set the positioning for OpenAI’s business products, connecting new capabilities to customer needs, the work they enable, and the evidence behind our claims. Lead business storytelling for priority launches across Codex, ChatGPT Work, API and developer capabilities, agents, and other enterprise products, in partnership with central Product Communications and product owners. Build a sustained editorial program between launches, using customer stories, explainers, and executive perspectives to show how our pr

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