OpenAI
Start-up Communications Manager, EMEA
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About the Team
OpenAI’s Communications team is responsible for helping people understand our technology, our mission, and the impact AI can have when deployed safely and responsibly. Across EMEA, we work closely with business, start-up, developer, product, marketing, global affairs, and policy teams to tell clear, credible stories about how OpenAI is helping organisations build, scale, and solve meaningful problems.
The EMEA B2B Communications team is small, fast-moving, and highly cross-functional. We support some of OpenAI’s most important external audiences, including founders, developers, enterprises, technical communities, journalists, creators, and policymakers. Our work spans proactive storytelling, media relations, executive communications, launches, events, case studies, and campaigns that build awareness, understanding, and trust.
In this role, you will:
- We’re seeking a strong, hands-on PR professional to join our small, high-impact team to support start-up, developer and B2B communications for OpenAI across EMEA. This role will report to the Head of B2B Communications EMEA.
- This role will play an important part in building awareness, understanding and trust with founders, developers and business audiences - showing how OpenAI helps companies build, scale and create, and how developers are using our technology at the next frontier of work and innovation.
The person will work cross-functionally and partner with OpenAI’s start-up, B2B, developer relations, marketing, product, communications and global affairs teams to:
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of the EMEA communications programme for OpenAI’s start-up and B2B teams - building proactive plans, managing co-ordination with EMEA comms agencies, and landing deeper stories, content and case studies that show how businesses are being built with OpenAI.
- Manage and support the delivery of creative, proactive communications campaigns, launches and events across multiple channels (media, influencers, founders, developers and stakeholders) which inspire, educate and build trust with business and technical audiences.
- Oversee a programme of events, media engagements and influencer activations across EMEA, working closely with start-up, developer and business communities.
- Help prepare briefing materials, talking points, and media engagement plans for OpenAI spokespeople.
- Build and maintain relationships with journalists, creators and influencers across business, technology, developer, start-up and venture capital communities across EMEA.
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You might thrive in this role if you:
- Professional PR experience (agency or in-house), with expertise in technology, business, start-up or developer communications across multiple channels (owned and earned).
- Strong creativity and proactive media and influencer relations skills, with proven ability to devise and manage campaigns for business, founder and technical audiences.
- Experience supporting a busy media relations team and senior spokespeople, with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple requests, events and deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with teams such as B2B, start-up, developer relations, global affairs, legal, marketing and product; ambitious, deeply curious about technology, and excited by the next frontier in how businesses are built and how developers create.
Additional Information
- The role is based in London and follows a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week.
- Must be willing to travel internationally when required.
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.
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