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Employer Brand, Communications & Social

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA · HybridFull-time$216–240K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$216–240K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

OpenAI is hiring an employer brand professional to turn its talent narrative into content, communications, and social storytelling. The role focuses on writing, content planning, digital channels, and campaigns that help candidates understand OpenAI’s work, people, and mission. The individual contributor will partner across Recruiting, Marketing, Communications, and People, taking projects from idea through publication and measurement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Employer BrandingCommunicationsSocial MediaMarketingRecruitingContent CreationEvent PlanningWritingEditingSocial Content CreationContent Project ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationRelationship BuildingContent Management ToolsSocial Publishing ToolsSpreadsheet ToolsPresentation ToolsPerformance Data AnalysisAI ToolsDiscretionAttention to Detail

Qualifications

10+ Years Related Experience

Full job description

About the Team OpenAI is a frontier AI research and deployment company. Frontier research is at the center of how we advance our mission, with researchers, engineers, product leaders, operators, and many other teams working together to turn new capabilities into systems that benefit humanity. The People team helps OpenAI attract, engage, and support the exceptional talent this work requires. Employer Brand sits at the intersection of Research, Recruiting, Communications, Marketing, and Brand. Its mandate is to establish OpenAI in the talent market as a frontier research lab and make our distinctive research environment, mission, culture, and opportunity for impact relevant and tangible to every priority talent audience. About the Role We’re hiring an employer brand professional to bring OpenAI’s talent narrative to life through compelling content, communications, and social media. Reporting to the Employer Brand Manager, you’ll help translate our employer brand strategy into stories and campaigns that help candidates understand our work, our people, and the opportunity to contribute to our mission. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with broad employer brand responsibilities and a particular focus on writing, content planning, digital, and social storytelling. You’ll develop content that reflects the experiences of our researchers and employees, adapt stories for different audiences and channels, and help deliver a consistent, credible candidate experience. You’ll work closely with Recruiting, Marketing & Brand, Internal Communications, the broader People team, employees, hiring managers, and external partners to bring projects from idea through publication and measurement. In this role, you will:

  • Develop and execute employer brand content and campaigns that bring OpenAI’s mission, culture, and work to life for priority talent audiences throughthru owned, earned, and paid content.our owned.

  • Manage the day-to-day employer brand content calendar, coordinating social content, publishing, reviews, and deadlines with channel owners and cross-functional partners.

  • Write and edit social posts, employee stories, careers content, recruiting communications, and other materials that help candidates understand why OpenAI.

  • Identify story opportunities and work with researchers, employees, and hiring teams to turn their experiences into accurate, engaging content across written, visual, and video formats.

  • Partner with Communications and Marketing & Brand to adapt content for social channels, maintain a consistent voice, and test formats that resonate with talent audiences.

  • Support broader employer brand initiatives, including recruiting events, candidate communications, and resources for recruiters and hiring managers.

  • Coordinate content production and review workflows, keeping source materials, permissions, approvals, and project information organized and current. Flag outdated or inconsistent information and escalate sensitive reviews or delivery risks.

  • Track content and campaign performance, gather audience feedback, and use those insights to improve future work, distinguishing observed results from interpretation.

  • Handle sensitive information and employee and candidate stories with care, ensuring accuracy, appropriate approvals, and respect for consent.

  • Project manager for key employer brand projects with the ability to work with cross functional stakeholders.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have 10+ years of experience in employer brand, communications, social media, marketing, recruiting, content, events, or a related field.

  • Are a strong writer and editor who can turn complex information into clear, credible stories while preserving accuracy and nuance.

  • Have experience creating or coordinating content for social channels and understand how to adapt messaging and formats for different audiences.

  • Can manage content projects from brief through delivery, balancing creative work with organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.

  • Build productive relationships across teams and are comfortable gathering input, coordinating reviews, and managing multiple deadlines.

  • Approach employee and candidate stories with discretion, respect for consent, and care for the people represented.

  • Are comfortable using content management, social publishing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools, and are willing to learn new platforms.

  • Are curious about technical work and talent audiences, ask thoughtful questions, and enjoy learning from subject-matter experts.

  • Use feedback and performance data to improve your work, and are thoughtful about using AI tools while maintaining human judgment, accuracy, and confidentiality.

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. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,935 open Communications jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$216–240K/yr
  • California median$150–205K/yr149 salary ranges
  • US median$105–160K/yr990 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $228K, is 30% above the California median midpoint ($175K) — in the top quarter of Communications salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 218 open Communications jobs in California and 1,935 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Communications postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,206 postings).
Education
815 of the 1,935 open Communications jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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