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We’re looking for a senior, enterprise-focused communications leader to define and drive how OpenAI shows up to businesses, from large enterprises to high-growth startups, and to build the communications strategy that brings that story to life across channels. The mandate is to lead communications for Business, including shaping press narratives, driving proactive media engagement, and building credibility with business, technical, and industry stakeholders. You will set the strategy and build the system, including hiring or partnering for social and content execution where needed. You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and play a critical role in ensuring communications is not a service function, but a driver of business outcomes.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s B2B business, shaping how we communicate value to customers, partners, and the broader market across industries
- Own press narrative and media engagement, building and maintaining strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and trade press, and proactively driving coverage that advances OpenAI’s enterprise positioning
- Translate complex product and platform capabilities into clear, credible enterprise narratives that resonate with technical buyers, executives, and decision-makers
- Operate within a pod-based model, partnering closely with other comms leads and marketing counterparts to deliver a unified, coordinated marcomms strategy for your area
- Ensure tight alignment with Marketing, co-developing integrated campaigns, launches, and storytelling that span earned, owned, and social channels
- Advise senior leadership, including the CMO (Business), CRO, and other senior Business leadership, on positioning, messaging, and how to proactively shape industry conversations
- Build and scale the function, including hiring or structuring support across social, content, and programmatic communications as needed
- Drive proactive storytelling, increasing the volume and consistency of high-quality, positive narratives about how OpenAI is transforming work and business
- Partner deeply with customers and GTM teams to bring real-world use cases and impact to life across industries and regions
You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have
- 15+ years of communications experience, with deep expertise in enterprise / B2B communications in high-growth technology environments
- Strong press instincts and relationships, with a track record of shaping narratives and landing impactful coverage with business and industry media
- Experience engaging enterprise stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, developers, and line-of-business leaders, with the ability to tailor messaging across segments
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic advisor to senior executives, not just an executor of comms plans
- Experience working in highly cross-functional, matrixed organizations, with strong instincts for alignment across product, GTM, and marketing
- Ability to build and scale teams, including structuring complementary capabilities such as social and content under a broader comms strategy
- Sound judgment in high-velocity, high-scrutiny environments, with the ability to prioritize, triage, and lead through ambiguity
- Balance of strategic thinking and execution, with a bias toward action and measurable impact
This role reports to the Chief Marketing Officer, Business and is based in San Francisco, CA.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
Compensation Range: $387K - $430K
About The Role
We’re looking for a senior, enterprise-focused communications leader to define and drive how OpenAI shows up to businesses, from large enterprises to high-growth startups, and to build the communications strategy that brings that story to life across channels. The mandate is to lead communications for Business, including shaping press narratives, driving proactive media engagement, and building credibility with business, technical, and industry stakeholders. You will set the strategy and build the system, including hiring or partnering for social and content execution where needed. You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and play a critical role in ensuring communications is not a service function, but a driver of business outcomes.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead communications strategy for OpenAI’s B2B business, shaping how we communicate value to customers, partners, and the broader market across industries
- Own press narrative and media engagement, building and maintaining strong relationships with top-tier business, technology, and trade press, and proactively driving coverage that advances OpenAI’s enterprise positioning
- Translate complex product and platform capabilities into clear, credible enterprise narratives that resonate with technical buyers, executives, and decision-makers
- Operate within a pod-based model, partnering closely with other comms leads and marketing counterparts to deliver a unified, coordinated marcomms strategy for your area
- Ensure tight alignment with Marketing, co-developing integrated campaigns, launches, and storytelling that span earned, owned, and social channels
- Advise senior leadership, including the CMO (Business), CRO, and other senior Business leadership, on positioning, messaging, and how to proactively shape industry conversations
- Build and scale the function, including hiring or structuring support across social, content, and programmatic communications as needed
- Drive proactive storytelling, increasing the volume and consistency of high-quality, positive narratives about how OpenAI is transforming work and business
- Partner deeply with customers and GTM teams to bring real-world use cases and impact to life across industries and regions
You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have
- 15+ years of communications experience, with deep expertise in enterprise / B2B communications in high-growth technology environments
- Strong press instincts and relationships, with a track record of shaping narratives and landing impactful coverage with business and industry media
- Experience engaging enterprise stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, developers, and line-of-business leaders, with the ability to tailor messaging across segments
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic advisor to senior executives, not just an executor of comms plans
- Experience working in highly cross-functional, matrixed organizations, with strong instincts for alignment across product, GTM, and marketing
- Ability to build and scale teams, including structuring complementary capabilities such as social and content under a broader comms strategy
- Sound judgment in high-velocity, high-scrutiny environments, with the ability to prioritize, triage, and lead through ambiguity
- Balance of strategic thinking and execution, with a bias toward action and measurable impact
This role reports to the Chief Marketing Officer, Business and is based in San Francisco, CA.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
Compensation Range: $387K - $430K
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Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to the Head of Communications role. A degree in journalism, public relations, or communications ties cleanly. Marketing or business degrees require a stronger employer justification letter connecting coursework to the specific duties.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Head of Communications openings by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for this role. LCA history confirms the employer understands prevailing wage obligations and has sponsored similar positions before.
Check prevailing wage before salary negotiations
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your role and location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for your specific metropolitan area before accepting any offer.
Prioritize cap-exempt employers if the lottery fails
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated organizations are cap-exempt and can file your H-1B petition any time of year. Communications directors at hospital systems or research universities often fall into this category and bypass the annual lottery entirely.
Clarify job duties map to O*NET classification
USCIS adjudicators often scrutinize communications leadership roles for specialty occupation eligibility. Ask your employer to confirm the petition's SOC code aligns with your actual duties using the O*NET occupation profile for Public Relations and Fundraising Managers.
Request premium processing for time-sensitive starts
If your start date is firm, ask your employer to file with USCIS premium processing. This guarantees a decision within 15 business days and reduces the risk of an unanswered Request for Evidence delaying your onboarding past October 1.
H-1B Visa Head Of Communications: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Communications role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as communications, public relations, journalism, or a closely related discipline. USCIS will deny petitions where the employer indicates any bachelor's degree is acceptable regardless of field, so the job description must specify a field-specific requirement.
Which industries most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for communications leadership roles?
Technology companies, large hospital systems, financial institutions, and universities sponsor Head of Communications roles most frequently. Nonprofit organizations and government contractors also sponsor, and because many are cap-exempt, they can file H-1B petitions year-round without waiting for the April lottery. Browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if I get a better communications role?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, your new employer files a transfer petition and you can start working as soon as USCIS receives it, without waiting for approval. Your job duties and degree field must still satisfy specialty occupation requirements at the new employer, so the role's description matters as much as the transfer process itself.
What happens to my H-1B status if my employer does a round of layoffs?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment to find a new sponsoring employer, change to another visa status, or depart the U.S. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition within that window. Given how competitive communications leadership searches can be, starting your search before a layoff is announced significantly improves your options.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage apply to a Head of Communications position?
DOL sets four prevailing wage levels for each occupation code and geographic area. A Head of Communications is typically classified at Level III or Level IV, reflecting supervisory and strategic responsibilities. Your employer must pay at least the DOL-certified wage for your level and location. You can verify the applicable wage using the OFLC Wage Search before or during negotiations.