# Executive Business Partner, APAC

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are expanding our presence across the Asia Pacific region under the leadership of our APAC Managing Director. The MD will build and scale the regional organization, balancing commercial execution, ecosystem development, government and regulatory engagement, and brand leadership across diverse markets.

As an Executive Business Partner, you will support the MD and help the team they are building operate effectively by creating structure, driving coordination, and strengthening operating cadence across countries, stakeholders, and time zones.

Our Executive Business Partners serve as trusted advisors and collaborators to OpenAI's executives and leaders, focused on strong communication and operational excellence across teams.

In this role, you will:

- Build strong connections within the immediate team and across other departments, becoming a trusted partner to leaders.

- Excel in sharing information clearly and efficiently, adapting communication styles for a broad range of audiences.

- Balance the calendars and priorities of multiple leaders, demonstrating prioritization skills and agility in adapting to shifts in priorities, while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.

- Operate with discretion and independence, proactively optimizing processes and flagging risks, while ensuring sensitive information is handled with care.

This role is based in Singapore. We follow a hybrid work model of three days in the office each week.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Have 5+ years experience in a cross-functional executive assistant role or similar support function.

- Successfully supported multiple leaders in the past.

- Worked in a hard tech startup or similar environment.

- Experience working across APAC markets and collaborating with U.S.-based HQ teams.

- High cross-cultural EQ and ability to tailor communication styles for diverse stakeholders.

- Strong operational rigor , able to run cadences, track priorities, and maintain alignment across time zones.

- Comfortable supporting complex, rapid travel across international regions.

- Strong communication - being able to tailor a message appropriate to a specific audience (writing an email to a Senator vs. a Customer vs. an Exec).

- Discretion - this role will have exposure to sensitive knowledge so must be rock solid on confidentiality.

- Humility/diplomacy - this role has the potential to accrue power in a unique ways, but we want this person to be decisive and make noncontroversial decisions.

- Very fluent in Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc. and other modern productivity software, and are excited to learn and use new tools.

- Genuine interest in the technology we’re building and the transformative potential of AI.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

## Skills

### Required
- Google Calendar
- Docs
- Sheets
- Gmail
- Google Suite
- Productivity software
- Cross-cultural communication
- Operational rigor
- Discretion
- Humility/diplomacy

### Nice to have
- AI
- Machine learning
- Data analysis
- Business development
- Marketing
- Sales

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