Developer Community Communications

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, Events, Design, Community & Social, and other strategic comms functions. This team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI.

About the Role

The OpenAI global developer community is growing rapidly, with millions of developers—from students and indie hackers to startup builders and professional engineers—building with our API, Codex, and ChatGPT. This role exists to develop scalable community programs and cultivate trusted relationships with the most influential builders who shape how the world understands our platform. This role reports into the Head of Platform & Research Comms, and will partner closely with Developer Experience, Research, Product, Product Marketing, the broader Communications team, and regional teams to deliver year-round developer community and influencer programs.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Own and scale developer community programs across online and in-person surfaces.

• Grow engagement with emerging developer communities, particularly around Codex, open-weight models, and new developer surfaces.

• Own the strategy, programming, and execution of developer meetups, Builder Lounges, hackathons, and conference activations in key global markets.

• Partner with DevEx, Product Ops, and technical teams to engage developer community leaders during alpha testing and translate insights into product and research decisions.

• Contribute to developer-focused campaigns and content in collaboration with Social and Marketing to educate developers, clarify product value and drive adoption.

• Collaborate with our Developer Forum moderators to manage engagement across OpenAI’s community platforms, ensuring they remain welcoming, high-signal, and valuable.

• Grow and expand relationships with developer influencers, creators, and early-access participants around launch moments and beyond.

• Partner with developer influencers and creators to co-create content that showcase real-world workflows while driving awareness and adoption for OpenAI’s models and products.

• Act as a consistent steward of the developer community voice back to product and cross-functional teams.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 7+ years of experience in developer relations, marketing, or communications

• Track record of designing and scaling community programs, and experience working with influencers or creators

• Strong understanding of AI startup landscape, technical concepts, and developer workflows

• Experience fostering and managing communities online and offline, with empathy for developers and fluency in their needs.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; capable of conveying complex technical concepts clearly

• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities

• Creative instincts and an eye for trends in developer culture; strong taste and ability to identify what resonates with developers

• Nice to have: Ability to code and/or fluency in SQL

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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