# Media Relations, Safety Communications

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $240K – $260K
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced communications professional to join our team as a Media Relations, Safety Communications specialist. The successful candidate will play a key role in communicating about our safety work, preparing and responding thoughtfully to issues that arise, and continuing to earn people's trust as our systems become more capable.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop communications strategies that highlight our proactive real-world safety practices and reinforce public confidence in how we approach responsible AI

- Craft thoughtful, timely responses when questions or issues emerge, helping audiences understand what we're doing and why

- Prepare materials including statements, FAQs, and backgrounders that make complex information clear and credible

- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to anticipate emerging topics and build readiness plans

- Build and strengthen relationships with journalists covering AI safety, technology, and policy

- Provide calm, trusted counsel to leaders and teammates on sensitive or fast-moving narratives

- Help establish clear processes for monitoring external narratives and responding with empathy, accuracy, and care

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of professional PR and media relations experience; corporate and/or crisis communications experience is preferred, in-house experience is a plus

- Experience with AI technologies or a strong personal interest in AI

- Exceptional ability to translate complex technical information into clear, persuasive external-facing content

- Proven success in building relationships and collaborating with press, executives, partners, and other stakeholders

**Benefits:**

- $240K – $260K salary

- Generous equity

- Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees

- 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

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- PR
- media relations
- communications
- AI

### Nice to have
- crisis communications
- corporate communications

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