Communications Lead, Cyber

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$297K/yr – $330K/yrSenior Level12+ years exp

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead strategic cybersecurity communications for OpenAI, shaping global narratives, product launches, and policy impacts, while coordinating across cross-functional teams to translate technical risk and research into credible storytelling.

  • Lead communications for cybersecurity products, research, partnerships, policy initiatives, and milestones.
  • Advise senior leadership on positioning and launch strategy to manage reputation and high-visibility security issues.
  • Oversee media engagement and cross-channel storytelling with researchers, policymakers, and tech press.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s cybersecurity work, from global narrative development through launches, research, threat reporting, and sustained storytelling.
  • Build a clear, differentiated story about how OpenAI can strengthen cyber defense while developing and deploying advanced capabilities responsibly.
  • Lead communications for major cybersecurity products, model capabilities, research, partnerships, policy initiatives, and company milestones.
  • Partner closely with the Product and Research Communications team, along with Security, Product, Research, Preparedness, Safety, Global Affairs, Go-to-Market, Legal, and Marketing, to deliver coordinated communications across earned, owned, executive, and social channels.
  • Own media engagement and build trusted relationships with leading cybersecurity, technology, national-security, policy, and business press.
  • Advise senior leadership on positioning, messaging, launch strategy, reputation, and communications for high-visibility or fast-moving security issues.
  • Translate complex technical, security, product, and policy decisions into clear and credible communications, while establishing messaging systems and operating rhythms that keep teams aligned.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of communications experience, with deep experience in cybersecurity, security technology, threat intelligence, national security, infrastructure, or another highly technical field.
  • Strong press instincts and relationships, with a track record of shaping narratives and landing meaningful coverage with cybersecurity, technology, policy, or business media.
  • Enough technical fluency to work credibly with security researchers, engineers, threat analysts, product leaders, and technical journalists.
  • Experience communicating consequential products, research, threat findings, vulnerabilities, incidents, or policy issues in high-scrutiny environments.
  • Exceptional judgment about accuracy, transparency, confidentiality, and the risks created by imprecise language.
  • Skill advising senior executives and technical leaders through high-visibility moments with calm and clarity.
  • The ability to move fluidly between setting the strategy and executing the details, while aligning diverse stakeholders behind a coherent story.
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OpenAI

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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

$297K/yr – $330K/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%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.9K

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