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We work across the teams building these projects to bring community expertise and clear communication to practical development needs.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a versatile communications and community engagement professional who can help move data center projects forward. You’ll combine community engagement with strong communication skills and experience in permitting and public meetings. This role calls for someone who can influence across organizational boundaries, build understanding among stakeholders and step into the work where they can be most useful. This position has a strong external focus, crafting and sharing our data center narrative with a strong impact on policy-making through advocacy and press stakeholder management. This position will also have a major impact on the way OpenAI is perceived by other players in the industry and by the wider public.\nIn this role, you will:\nPartner with permitting and community-engagement teams to understand local concerns and support project progress.\n\nSupport press and storytelling around community engagement projects in our local data center communities in partnership with our Community Engagement Leads.\n\nHelp craft and scale our communication narrative around our operating principals as we scale our infrastructure footprint.\n\nDevelop clear narratives and communications that explain projects, energy needs and policy positions to relevant stakeholders.\n\nConnect policy, communications and project teams so messages and actions reflect development needs.\n\nBuild alignment across teams, influence decisions and help resolve issues that span policy, communications and development.\n\nThink creatively about communications and the channels used, working with the Public Affairs teams to deliver integrated execution of initiatives.\n\nHelp shape energy policy approaches that support data center development and translate policy considerations into practical recommendations.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you have:\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex issues clear to different audiences.\n\nPractical experience crafting a positive narrative for the data center industry, and a track record of influencing across teams and taking ownership in ambiguous situations.\n\nExperience in and supporting public meetings, events, and announcements.\n\nExperience managing social media messaging and campaigns in support of project initiatives\n\nMedia training and have experience working with senior leadership to prep for media\n\nExperience in energy policy and an ability to connect policy decisions to infrastructure development.\n\nPreferred Skills\nExperience running a high stakes media campaign\n\nExperience supporting data center development or comparable energy and infrastructure projects.\n\nExperience with policy communication (on energy for example)\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI 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.\nWe 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.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground 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.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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