Infrastructure Communications Lead
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- press and media relations
- communications strategy
- stakeholder management
- public meeting support
Also useful
- media training
- energy policy communication
- social media campaigns
About the Role
We’re looking for a versatile communications and community engagement professional who can help move data center projects forward. You’ll combine community engagement with strong communication skills and experience in permitting and public meetings. This role calls for someone who can influence across organizational boundaries, build understanding among stakeholders and step into the work where they can be most useful.
This position has a strong external focus, crafting and sharing our data center narrative with a strong impact on policy-making through advocacy and press stakeholder management. This position will also have a major impact on the way OpenAI is perceived by other players in the industry and by the wider public.
In this role, you will
- Partner with permitting and community-engagement teams to understand local concerns and support project progress.
- Support press and storytelling around community engagement projects in our local data center communities in partnership with our Community Engagement Leads.
- Help craft and scale our communication narrative around our operating principals as we scale our infrastructure footprint.
- Develop clear narratives and communications that explain projects, energy needs and policy positions to relevant stakeholders.
- Connect policy, communications and project teams so messages and actions reflect development needs.
- Build alignment across teams, influence decisions and help resolve issues that span policy, communications and development.
- Think creatively about communications and the channels used, working with the Public Affairs teams to deliver integrated execution of initiatives.
- Help shape energy policy approaches that support data center development and translate policy considerations into practical recommendations.
You might thrive in this role if you have
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex issues clear to different audiences.
- Practical experience crafting a positive narrative for the data center industry, and a track record of influencing across teams and taking ownership in ambiguous situations.
- Experience in and supporting public meetings, events, and announcements.
- Experience managing social media messaging and campaigns in support of project initiatives
- Media training and have experience working with senior leadership to prep for media
- Experience in energy policy and an ability to connect policy decisions to infrastructure development.
Preferred Skills
- Experience running a high stakes media campaign
- Experience supporting data center development or comparable energy and infrastructure projects.
- Experience with policy communication (on energy for example)
About the Team
Our team helps OpenAI advance data center development by connecting communications, permitting and community engagement. We work across the teams building these projects to bring community expertise and clear communication to practical development needs.
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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Equal opportunity and legal notices
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.
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
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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.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link
From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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