# Research Communications Manager, Safety

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Communications
**Salary:** $185k – $205k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Science Communications, Technical Writing, Ai Research, Machine Learning, Safety Research, Media Relations, Storytelling, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Project Management, Content Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Develop and execute external communications strategies for OpenAI’s safety research, partnering with researchers to translate complex technical work into clear narratives for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the public. Requires 7+ years in research/science communications and strong AI/ML fluency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

**Shape Safety Research Narratives**
- Develop clear, credible external narratives around OpenAI’s safety research, including alignment, evaluations, preparedness, interpretability, and other areas connected to the safe development of frontier AI.
- Translate complex technical work into accessible stories without oversimplifying, overstating impact, or creating unnecessary alarm.
- Help define and reinforce OpenAI’s POV on key safety research topics and how they connect to OpenAI’s broader research roadmap and mission.

**Partner Deeply with Researchers**
- Work directly with safety and alignment researchers to understand their work, identify the most important ideas, and help position those ideas publicly.
- Serve as a communications thought partner to researchers—helping them anticipate questions, clarify implications, and communicate with precision.
- Build communications plans that help researchers share their work through the right channels, at the right level of depth, and with the right context.

**Lead Proactive Storytelling & Content Strategy**
- Develop proactive storytelling opportunities across blogs, explainers, video, podcasts, events, and other channels beyond traditional media.
- Help identify creative ways to elevate safety research and make the work more legible to expert and non-expert audiences.
- Look across the safety research portfolio to identify broader themes, narrative opportunities, and moments where OpenAI can contribute meaningfully to public understanding.

**Support Research Launches & Publications**
- Partner with research teams to plan communications for major papers, evaluations, model-related research, safety initiatives, and other technical publications.
- Collaborate with editorial, design, social, policy, and research teams on blogs, explainers, visuals, briefing materials, and supporting content.
- Ensure launches are grounded in evidence, appropriately scoped, and aligned with OpenAI’s safety, policy, and communications priorities.

**Lead Research-Focused Media Engagement**
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with science, technology, AI, and business journalists who cover frontier AI and safety research.
- Manage proactive and reactive media engagement related to safety research announcements, papers, collaborations, and emerging narratives.
- Prepare researchers and executives for interviews, briefings, events, and public appearances.

**Cross-Functional Partnership**
- Work closely with Product, Policy, Safety, Legal, Marketing, and other Communications teams to align safety research communications with broader company goals.
- Partner with teams managing crisis and reactive safety communications to ensure clear coordination, while maintaining focus on proactive research storytelling.
- Help build a stronger communications muscle around safety research across the organization.

**Risk Anticipation & Mitigation**
- Identify potential reputational, scientific, policy, or misinterpretation risks early.
- Develop mitigation strategies, Q&A, messaging guidance, and briefing materials for sensitive or high-profile safety research topics.
- Help ensure OpenAI communicates responsibly about frontier capabilities, limitations, uncertainty, and the role of ongoing safety research.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in research, science, technology, or safety-related communications.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with scientists, engineers, researchers, or technical leaders.
- Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, safety research, alignment, or adjacent technical domains.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone for expert and general audiences.
- Strong judgment handling complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes narratives.
- Experience developing proactive storytelling strategies across multiple channels, including blogs, media, video, podcasts, events, or long-form content.
- Experience managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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