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Engagement and Outreach Lead, Global AffairsOpenAI · San Francisco
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Engagement and Outreach Lead, Global Affairs

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-19 San Francisco Fulltime Hybrid Community Services Development
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market S$10,000–S$20,000/mo

About the Company

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The Global Affairs team cultivates authentic, collaborative relationships to ensure diverse perspectives inform their work, co-creating AI tools and practices with communities, educators, stakeholders, and frontline organizations. The U.S. Policy and Partnerships team leads Global Affairs engagement in the U.S. at federal, state, and local levels, working to anticipate emerging issues, craft forward-looking strategies, and champion policies that align technological progress with human values.

Responsibilities

  • ● Develop and lead a proactive engagement strategy that strengthens OpenAI's relationships with a range of stakeholders, including community groups, parent organizations, workforce organizations, educators, youth programs, teen safety organizations, unions, consumer, technology policy organizations and civic innovators.
  • ● Serve as a visible ambassador for OpenAI, representing the company at public forums, conferences, convenings, and in media or influencer collaborations.
  • ● Build durable partnerships with third-party organizations that advance shared goals in key areas, including but not limited to, education, workforce development, AI safety, and mental health.
  • ● Establish ongoing mechanisms for feedback loops between community partners and OpenAI's internal teams (Policy, Safety, Product, Legal, Communications, and OpenAI Academy).
  • ● Design and oversee multi-stakeholder pilots that test AI use cases for public benefit, ensuring they are measurable, inclusive, and scalable.
  • ● Lead program scoping, partner recruitment, budgets, and impact measurement, building repeatable playbooks and toolkits that enable regional replication.
  • ● Collaborate closely with colleagues across OpenAI to ensure community input informs product development, safety practices.

Requirements

  • ● Help lead OpenAI's efforts to build trusted, long-term relationships with third-party organizations, civic and community leaders, and mission-aligned networks that help ensure AI benefits everyone.
  • ● Represent OpenAI across education, workforce, technology policy, civic, and public-interest ecosystems - listening to diverse perspectives, co-designing programs, and translating community insight into action across our product, policy, and social impact work.
  • ● Report to the U.S. Partnerships Lead, Global Affairs.
  • ● Help shape how OpenAI shows up in communities at local, state and federal levels, leading engagement strategies, partnerships, and public outreach efforts that build understanding of AI, expand opportunity, and strengthen resilience.
  • ● Possess strategic vision, deep relationship instincts, and comfort engaging at all levels - from grassroots organizations to national convenings and thought leaders.