# Head of Business Communications

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Communications
**Salary:** $387k – $430k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Communications Strategy, Media Relations, B2B Communications, Enterprise Messaging, Press Narrative Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Team Building, Strategic Advisory, Content Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Lead communications strategy and media engagement for OpenAI’s B2B business, shaping enterprise narratives and advising senior leadership on positioning. Requires 15+ years of B2B tech communications experience and strong press relationships.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s B2B business, shaping how the company communicates value to customers, partners, and the broader market across industries
- Own press narrative and media engagement, building and maintaining strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and trade press, and proactively driving coverage that advances OpenAI’s enterprise positioning
- Translate complex product and platform capabilities into clear, credible enterprise narratives that resonate with technical buyers, executives, and decision-makers
- Operate within a pod-based model, partnering closely with other comms leads and marketing counterparts to deliver a unified, coordinated marcomms strategy
- Ensure tight alignment with Marketing, co-developing integrated campaigns, launches, and storytelling that span earned, owned, and social channels
- Advise senior leadership, including the CMO (Business), CRO, and other senior Business leadership, on positioning, messaging, and how to proactively shape industry conversations
- Build and scale the function, including hiring or structuring support across social, content, and programmatic communications as needed
- Drive proactive storytelling, increasing the volume and consistency of high-quality, positive narratives about how OpenAI is transforming work and business
- Partner deeply with customers and GTM teams to bring real-world use cases and impact to life across industries and regions

## Requirements
- 15+ years of communications experience, with deep expertise in enterprise / B2B communications in high-growth technology environments
- Strong press instincts and relationships, with a track record of shaping narratives and landing impactful coverage with business and industry media
- Experience engaging enterprise stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, developers, and line-of-business leaders, with the ability to tailor messaging across segments
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic advisor to senior executives, not just an executor of comms plans
- Experience working in highly cross-functional, matrixed organizations, with strong instincts for alignment across product, GTM, and marketing
- Ability to build and scale teams, including structuring complementary capabilities such as social and content under a broader comms strategy
- Sound judgment in high-velocity, high-scrutiny environments, with the ability to prioritize, triage, and lead through ambiguity
- Balance of strategic thinking and execution, with a bias toward action and measurable impact

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in AI, technology platforms, or high-growth SaaS environments
- Background working with technical and developer audiences

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