Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $361K - $401K per year, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
About the Team
OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Events team advances that mission by connecting the people building AI with the people using it to solve problems, create new things, and open up opportunities for others.
About the Role
We're looking for a Global Head of Events to lead a large, established global events and production team, with the opportunity to define what comes next. Working with OpenAI's executive team, you'll set the direction for our event portfolio, focus investment on the experiences that matter most, and give the team the clarity and support to do its best work.
Responsibilities
- Set OpenAI's global events strategy and focus investment on the experiences that matter most.
- Partner with executives on event priorities, programming, and participation in key moments.
- Create flagship gatherings and original formats that bring our products, ideas, and communities together.
- Work across Brand, Creative, Product, Research, and Communications to create thoughtful, cohesive attendee experiences.
- Lead and develop a global events and production team, while helping regional teams adapt experiences for their markets.
- Own budgets, agencies, vendors, and complex production in partnership with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security.
- Oversee in-house production for town halls, webinars, and film projects.
- Partner with Revenue Marketing, Field Marketing, and developer teams on audience goals and follow-through; connect live, digital, and hybrid events to engagement beyond the room.
- Define success across product understanding, adoption, community, customer relationships, brand, and business results, using feedback and AI to improve future experiences.
Requirements
- 14+ years of experience in global events, experiential marketing, and large-scale production, including leadership of teams, budgets, and programs across multiple markets.
- A track record of creating distinctive flagship experiences and building the teams and processes to deliver them consistently.
- Strong creative judgment and an understanding of how to design experiences for developers, business leaders, customers, partners, and communities.
- Experience developing leaders, setting priorities across a broad portfolio, and guiding an established team through change.
- Experience leading complex live and recorded productions, managing agencies and significant budgets, and partnering with senior stakeholders.
- The ability to connect event investment to meaningful outcomes while keeping the attendee experience central.
- An entrepreneurial approach to ambiguity, curiosity about AI, and firsthand experience using it to improve your work.
Workplace & Location
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. Occasional travel will be required.