About OpenAI Foundation
AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care. It has the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits—faster medical breakthroughs, accelerated scientific discovery, more personalized services in healthcare and education, new tools for creativity and invention, higher productivity and economic growth, improved public services like transportation systems, and so much more.
But building powerful systems to benefit humanity is only a part of the work of our mission. Advanced AI models will also present new challenges that are already surfacing, and we need to be prepared to identify these challenges and develop solutions to address them.
These are the two dimensions of what we’re building the Foundation to do. We aim to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform what people are capable of, and deliver real benefits in people’s lives—while working hard with partners to be ready for new challenges, and to help make society resilient, as AI advances.
This work is just beginning. Over the next year, as we quickly ramp up, the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. This includes early investments toward our previously announced $25 billion commitment to curing diseases and AI resilience.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Events and Community Engagement Manager to join our team! The largest component of this role is planning, coordinating and executing events in San Francisco. Additionally, you will partner with Foundation leadership on developing and executing a community engagement strategy for the Foundation with certain technical communities.
As the Events and Community Manager, you are a special person who is both creative and scrappy, as well as detail-oriented and operations-minded. You will partner with key cross-functional teams across the entire company to build and support a wide variety of internal and external facing events in our offices and community engagement activities.
This role demands a proactive, creative and organized professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously. Experience in building and fine-tuning program processes across a wide range of stakeholders and vendors is important.
Key responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and execute various events, including workshops, dinners, and team-building activities
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external vendors to meet event objectives and ensure a high level of satisfaction among participants
- Manage budgets and timelines for events
- Develop and document replicable event strategies, processes and playbooks
- Develop event success tracking through participant feedback and other relevant metrics, making data-driven recommendations for future improvements
- Partner with Foundation leadership on developing and executing a community engagement strategy for the Foundation with certain technical communities
- This role requires travel up to 20% to host events in other cities, such as New York, London, and Washington D.C.
You might thrive in this role if these describe your qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in event planning
- Have experience organizing a wide range of events from start to finish
- Proactive self-starter with experience building/running processes and playbooks
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with a proven ability to handle multiple events simultaneously
- Can roll up your sleeves and get things done but also be able to plan for the future and develop processes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of working effectively with team members at all levels.
- Creative thinker with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality, memorable events.
- Proficient in google calendar/docs, Asana, Notion and other event management tools