Communications Manager, Southern Europe

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Communications

Communications Manager for OpenAI in Southern Europe, responsible for shaping and executing communications programs for the French market. This role involves localizing global announcements, developing country-specific stories, managing agency workstreams, building media relationships, and supporting communications around product launches and public understanding of AI. The role has a strong business and product communications focus, requiring the ability to translate complex technology into clear narratives for diverse audiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support B2B and GTM communications, including enterprise adoption, customer stories, partner announcements, business media, and industry narratives.
  2. Drive product communications workstreams across audiences, including enterprise, developer, business, and mainstream user-facing moments.
  3. Localize global announcements and campaigns for the French market, ensuring messaging is culturally relevant and grounded in local media context.
  4. Proactively identify and tell stories that show how OpenAI’s technologies are being used by businesses, developers, institutions, educators, creators, and people in France and across Southern Europe.
  5. Help shape mainstream and consumer-facing product stories that explain OpenAI’s tools, benefits, and approach in accessible ways.

Skills

Required

  • Communications
  • Media Relations
  • PR
  • Tech Industry Experience
  • French Media Landscape Understanding
  • Narrative Development
  • Agency Management
  • Judgment
  • Adaptability
  • Attention to Detail
  • AI Curiosity
  • French Fluency
  • English Fluency

Nice to have

  • Spanish Language Skills
  • Italian Language Skills

What the JD emphasized

  • strong experience in communications, media relations, PR, or related roles, ideally in the tech industry
  • strong understanding of the French media landscape
  • translate complex technology into clear, compelling narratives for different audiences
  • managing agency partners
  • sound judgment on sensitive or high-profile issues
  • fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
  • strong attention to detail
  • curious about AI and motivated by helping people understand its benefits, limitations, and impact
  • fluent in French and English