Program Manager, Outreach & Audiences

About the Role

OpenAI’s Global Affairs team is seeking a highly organized and creative Partnerships and Program Manager to help grow two of our flagship public engagement initiatives: OpenAI Academy, our AI literacy and upskilling platform, and OpenAI Forum, our expert dialogue series on the future of AI. Reporting to the Director of Outreach and Audience Engagement, you’ll help shape and deliver programming that connects OpenAI’s mission to critical audiences around the world.

This role offers the opportunity to design meaningful engagement strategies, manage high-impact programs, and build partnerships with educators, nonprofits, public sector leaders, and other key communities. From shaping content to managing events and building audiences, you’ll play a hands-on role in amplifying OpenAI’s outreach and fostering long-term, mission-aligned relationships.

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 Program Execution:

  • Support day-to-day execution of OpenAI Academy and Forum initiatives, including serving as liaison for partners, providing regular updates, handling logistics, and surfacing key needs.

  • Coordinate and manage virtual and in-person events, workshops, and discussion forums.

  • Lead operational tasks including vendor coordination, guest communications, timeline tracking, and reporting.

  • Track KPIs, analyze participant feedback, and report progress to cross-functional partners.

  • Coordinate across internal teams: Work with comms, policy, and events teams to align on partner contributions and ensure expectations are met.

• Create and Curate Content:

  • Contribute to the development of session topics, guest speaker lists, and content formats for Academy and Forum programming.

  • Edit and produce short-form video content (e.g., event highlights, social clips) to drive public engagement.

  • Develop clear, accessible written materials such as course outlines, discussion guides, and event briefs.

• Engage and Grow Audiences:

  • Support outreach to educators, nonprofits, and public sector organizations to drive audience participation.

  • Partner with internal design and communications teams to amplify content via blog posts, social media, and public events.

  • Build feedback loops to incorporate participant insights into future programming.
    

You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have

• Experience managing high-impact programs with multiple stakeholders and moving parts, including complex timelines, tracking deliverables and communicating clearly and diplomatically with diverse stakeholders.

• A background in program or project management, ideally in content creation, education, or public engagement contexts.

• Strong creative instincts—comfortable generating ideas for sessions, speakers, and content formats.

• Basic video editing skills (e.g., clipping conversations into short-form videos) and ability to work with production partners.

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Passion for OpenAI’s mission and interest in education, policy, or the social impacts of AI.

• Familiarity with instructional design, public affairs, or community-building strategies.

• Experience organizing events, workshops, or convenings.

• Comfort with collaboration and productivity tools (e.g., Notion, Descript, Final Cut, Figma).
  

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$190K + Offers Equity