美国外部事务专员，全球事务
US External Affairs Associate, Global Affairs
关于团队
OpenAI的使命是确保通用人工智能造福全人类。美国政策与合作伙伴团队隶属于全球事务部门，帮助将这一使命转化为与公民社会、社区领袖、研究人员和其他外部利益相关方之间的可信赖、实际的互动。
我们当前的运营模式围绕有纪律的跨职能活动展开：从抽象的说服转向本地验证，将政策专业知识与现实中的使用案例相结合，并与可以协助社区理解、塑造并受益于人工智能的可信验证者合作。该团队与全球事务、法律、安全、传播、产品、研究等其他职能部门的同事密切合作，建立具有实质内容、持久且基于双向学习的关系。
关于职位
作为美国外部事务专员，您将与团队负责人合作，推动OpenAI与民权组织、公民社会团体、研究人员、社区组织及其他在美国人工智能政策辩论中发挥影响的外部利益相关方的互动。
该职位是团队合作伙伴关系和外联运营模式的核心。您将帮助识别优先利益相关方，设计互动策略，并建立外部关系和反馈循环。这项工作不是单向的教育；而是关于共同设计、倾听、产品与政策学习，以及创造具体的验证点，以增强公众信任。
向外部事务负责人汇报，您将在美国政策与合作伙伴团队内工作，并与州和地方政策、联邦事务、传播、安全、法律、产品和研究等部门紧密协作。随着我们发布新的研究、产品和工具，OpenAI正在迅速发展。日常的工作可能包括在各类会议上代表OpenAI，围绕快速变化的政策问题设计利益相关方策略，组织合作伙伴简报，准备产品和政策解释材料，支持本地验证点活动，协调季度合作伙伴评审，或将公民社会的反馈转化为内部团队可执行的见解。
该职位位于华盛顿特区，可能需要频繁出差以会见关键利益相关方。我们为新员工提供搬迁协助。
在此职位中，您将
- 与民权、公民社会、研究、社区、实验室等建立并维护信任关系
- 设计和实施与这些利益相关方的互动策略
- 协调和管理合作伙伴关系，确保有效沟通和反馈机制
- 支持本地验证点活动，推动政策和产品方向的改进
- 与其他团队协作，确保外部反馈被有效整合到内部决策中
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About the Team
OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The U.S. Policy and Partnerships team sits within Global Affairs and helps translate that mission into trusted, practical engagement with civil society, community leaders, researchers, and other external stakeholders across the United States.
Our current operating model is built around disciplined, cross-functional campaigns: moving from abstract persuasion to local proof, pairing policy expertise with real-world use cases, and working with trusted validators who can help communities understand, shape, and benefit from AI. The team works closely with colleagues across Global Affairs, Legal, Safety, Communications, Product, Research, and other functions to build relationships that are substantive, durable, and grounded in two-way learning.
About the Role
As U.S. External Affairs Associate, you will work with the team leads to help advance OpenAI's engagement with civil rights organizations, civil society groups, researchers, community-based organizations, and other external stakeholders shaping the AI policy debate in the United States.
This role is central to the team's partnership and outreach operating model. You will help identify priority stakeholders, design engagement strategies, and build the external relationships and feedback loops. The work is not about one-way education; it is about co-design, listening, product and policy learning, and creating concrete proof points that can strengthen public trust.
Reporting to the External Affairs Lead, you will work across the U.S. Policy and Partnerships team and in close coordination with State and Local Policy, Federal Affairs, Communications, Safety, Legal, Product, and Research. OpenAI is evolving quickly as we release new research, products, and tools. Day-to-day work may include representing OpenAI at convenings, designing a stakeholder strategy around a fast-moving policy issue, organizing partner briefings, preparing product and policy explainers, supporting local proof-point campaigns, coordinating quarterly partner reviews, or translating feedback from civil society into actionable insights for internal teams.
This role is based in Washington, DC and may require frequent travel to meet with key stakeholders. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In This Role, You Will
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with civil rights, civil society, research, community, labor, education, accessibility and other stakeholder organizations relevant to OpenAI's U.S. policy priorities.
- Help execute a repeatable engagement operating model grounded in co-design, localized benefits, trusted validators, cross-functional planning, and regular partner reviews.
- Develop stakeholder maps, engagement plans, briefing materials, and follow-up systems for priority policy campaigns and rapid-response moments.
- Support federal and state engagement strategies by identifying credible third-party voices, local proof points, and community feedback that can inform policy positions and advocacy.
- Prepare OpenAI executives and subject-matter experts for external meetings, convenings, roundtables, and public events.
- Translate complex AI product, safety, and policy topics into clear materials for external audiences, including standing content packs and deeper product briefings for technology policy stakeholders.
- Surface external concerns and opportunities related to data and trust, deepfakes, child safety, job displacement, energy costs, copyright, civil and human rights, mental health, and other areas of public concern.
- Coordinate closely with Global Affairs, Communications, Legal, Safety, Product, Research, and other internal teams to ensure stakeholder engagement is accurate, thoughtful, and useful to the business.
- Track relationship health, engagement outcomes, commitments, risks, and follow-ups so the team can operate with accountability and continuity.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Are deeply familiar with the civil society, civil rights, and technology policy landscape in the United States.
- Are an effective coalition builder who can earn trust with a wide range of stakeholders, including groups that may be skeptical of OpenAI or AI more broadly.
- Enjoy working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where strategy, execution, and judgment all matter.
- Can move easily between external relationship-building and internal cross-functional coordination.
- Are comfortable translating technical and policy complexity into clear, useful materials for non-technical audiences.
- Have strong instincts for where public trust, policy risk, and product reality intersect.
- Are energized by the promise of AI while taking seriously its potential harms and uneven impacts.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Established network and credibility with civil society, civil rights, research, community, and other stakeholder organizations, including groups representing underrepresented communities.
- Deep experience in technology policy, public policy, public affairs, civil society engagement, advocacy, campaigns, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of the federal, state, and local policy institutions, processes, and debates shaping AI governance in the United States.
- Demonstrated ability to design and execute stakeholder engagement strategies tied to concrete policy, partnership, or public trust objectives.
- Excellent communication, presentation, briefing, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical and policy concepts to diverse audiences.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage shared resources, timelines, follow-ups, and cross-functional workstreams.
- Sound judgment, high integrity, and the ability to operate thoughtfully on sensitive or high-salience issues.
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams, especially policy, communications, legal, safety, product, research, and technical teams.
- Genuine care for the impact of technology on society and a demonstrated ability to listen carefully to external concerns.
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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