About the Team
The Communications team supports OpenAI’s mission by helping the organization communicate clearly, responsibly, and effectively with external audiences. We work closely with partners across the company to navigate complex topics, manage evolving narratives, and ensure OpenAI’s communications reflect our values and long-term goals.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Communications Manager to help shape and execute OpenAI’s communications in India, with a primary focus on consumer and product centric narratives - how people, creators, students, and communities experience and benefit from OpenAI’s tools. Working as part of a small team, this role will also support corporate communications and issues management as and when needed.
This is a hands-on role for someone who can turn fast-moving product updates into clear stories, and build excitement without hype. You’ll partner closely with teams across OpenAI and with external stakeholders (media, influencers, ecosystem partners) to ensure our communications are fast, accurate, locally resonant, and trusted. You will also help keep internal teams aligned and moving during moments when priorities shift quickly.
This role is based in Mumbai.
What You’ll Do
Lead consumer and product narrative development
Run day-to-day external communications
Cross-functional stakeholder navigation
What we’re looking for
Nice-to-haves
You might thrive in this role if you
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.
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. It develops advanced foundation models and products such as GPT language models, DALL·E (text-to-image), and Sora (text-to-video), offered via ChatGPT and APIs for developers and enterprises. The organization combines frontier research, product deployment, and AI safety/policy work, with a stated focus on building safe and beneficial general-purpose AI. OpenAI has transitioned from a nonprofit to a capped-profit and now a public benefit corporation structure.
Location
Remote
Total raised
$64.1B
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder; formerly Chief Scientist of OpenAI (stepped back 2024–2025)
Elon Musk
Co-founder (left board in 2018, no longer involved in management)
Jan Leike
Former Head of Alignment / co-lead of the Superalignment team (left in 2024 to join Anthropic)
John Schulman
Co-founder, OpenAI
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.