Communications Manager, Monetization

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

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

Posted 4 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive OpenAI’s ads and monetization communications strategy, translating complex product decisions into clear narratives and leading high-impact launches.

  • Own media engagement and press strategy
  • Advise senior leadership on positioning and launch strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s ads and monetization initiatives, from global narrative development through launches and sustained storytelling.
  • Build a clear, differentiated story about how OpenAI approaches ads, including the value it creates for users, businesses and the broader ecosystem.
  • Partner closely with Product, GTM and Marketing to deliver coordinated campaigns across earned, owned, and social channels in support of business outcomes.
  • Own media engagement and build trusted relationships with leading business, technology and advertising press.
  • Advise senior leadership on positioning, messaging, launch strategy, and how to proactively shape industry conversations.
  • Translate complex product, technical and commercial decisions into clear, accessible communications for a range of audiences.
  • Establish messaging, operating rhythms and communications systems that keep teams aligned as the business grows.
  • This role is strategic and hands-on; comfortable defining long-term strategy, building systems and relationships, and leading through high-profile launches and fast-moving issues.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of communications experience, with deep experience in ads and monetization at a high-growth technology company.
  • Strong press instincts and relationships, with a track record of shaping narratives and landing impactful coverage with business and industry media.
  • Demonstrate exceptional editorial judgment and taste.
  • Skilled at advising senior executives and navigating high-visibility environments with calm and clarity.
  • Can move fluidly between setting a strategic vision and executing the details.
  • Experience working in highly cross-functional, matrixed organizations, with strong instincts for alignment across product, GTM, and marketing.
  • Highly collaborative leader who can align diverse stakeholders behind a unified story.

Benefits

  • relocation assistance
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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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Communications Manager, Monetization

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