Integrated Marketing Lead, Brand & Policy

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$287K/yr – $318K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own policy communications programs from strategy to measurement, translating complex AI topics into credible, engaging narratives for national and local audiences while collaborating across teams.

  • Lead policy and brand campaign strategy across national and local efforts.
  • Own campaigns end-to-end from audience insights to post-campaign analysis.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead policy and brand campaign strategy: Develop integrated marketing strategies that communicate why OpenAI builds, demonstrate the real-world impact of our technology, and address important policy and societal issues.
  • Build national and local campaigns: Lead a mix of national paid-media campaigns and locally tailored efforts that reach policymakers, civic and community leaders, influential stakeholders, and the broader public.
  • Translate complex issues into compelling stories: Turn nuanced topics—including AI infrastructure, data centers, jobs, economic opportunity, and youth safety—into clear, credible, and engaging narratives for diverse audiences.
  • Own campaigns from strategy through measurement: Manage the full campaign lifecycle, including audience insights, briefs, creative development, media strategy, stakeholder alignment, execution, launch, optimization, and post-campaign analysis.
  • Connect policy expertise with brand building: Ensure policy-focused communications strengthen the broader OpenAI brand, create greater understanding of our mission, and build long-term trust.
  • Champion creative excellence: Partner with internal creative teams and external agencies to develop distinctive, culturally relevant work while maintaining accuracy and sound judgment on sensitive topics.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Global Affairs, Communications, Creative, Research, Product, and other partners to align priorities, navigate complex issues, and bring campaigns to market effectively.
  • Develop audience and market insight: Build a deep understanding of policy, civic, and local audiences and use research, data, and cultural insight to determine the most effective messages, channels, and messengers.
  • Measure and improve impact: Establish clear campaign objectives and measurement plans, using results and audience feedback to continuously strengthen our strategy and execution.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in integrated marketing, brand marketing, corporate reputation, public affairs, policy communications, or advertising, including significant experience leading complex, high-profile campaigns.
  • A strong understanding of policymakers, civic leaders, advocacy organizations, community stakeholders, and other audiences that influence public understanding and policy conversations.
  • A demonstrated ability to translate complex or technical subjects into accessible stories that strengthen reputation, build trust, and connect a brand with a broad public audience.
  • Proven success developing national campaigns as well as locally tailored marketing or public-affairs efforts informed by regional and community context.
  • Experience leading substantial paid-media campaigns across channels such as television, digital video, social, print, audio, out-of-home, and local media.
  • Proven success managing campaigns across paid, owned, earned, experiential, and community channels, with strong strategic and project-management skills.
  • The ability to navigate sensitive, fast-moving, and highly visible issues with care, accuracy, and an understanding of reputational and policy considerations.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and influence decisions at the executive level.
  • A track record of bringing together teams with different perspectives and areas of expertise to deliver against a shared objective.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment and adjusting strategies in response to new developments, audience insights, and external dynamics.

Preferred

  • Experience developing campaigns related to technology policy, corporate reputation, economic impact, infrastructure, workforce issues, online or youth safety, or other complex societal topics.
  • Experience partnering closely with public policy, government affairs, corporate communications, research, and community-engagement teams.
  • Experience managing creative and media agencies and substantial campaign budgets.
  • A passion for storytelling and for making complex ideas understandable, relevant, and human.
  • A test-and-learn mindset grounded in research, measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • Familiarity with artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and the evolving public conversation surrounding their impact.
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.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.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$287K/yr – $318K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Corporate Round • $110B
  • Dec 2025
    Corporate Round • $1B
  • Oct 2025
    Secondary Market • $6.6B

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

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Current headcount: ~9.9K

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