Start-up Communications Manager, Emea

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · London, United Kingdom · Communications

OpenAI is seeking a PR professional to support start-up, developer, and B2B communications across EMEA. This role will build awareness, understanding, and trust with founders, developers, and business audiences by showcasing how OpenAI helps companies build and scale, and how developers use their technology. Responsibilities include leading the EMEA communications program for start-up and B2B teams, managing campaigns and events, preparing briefing materials, and building relationships with media and influencers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the day-to-day delivery of the EMEA communications programme for OpenAI’s start-up and B2B teams - building proactive plans, managing co-ordination with EMEA comms agencies, and landing deeper stories, content and case studies that show how businesses are being built with OpenAI.
  2. Manage and support the delivery of creative, proactive communications campaigns, launches and events across multiple channels (media, influencers, founders, developers and stakeholders) which inspire, educate and build trust with business and technical audiences.
  3. Oversee a programme of events, media engagements and influencer activations across EMEA, working closely with start-up, developer and business communities.
  4. Help prepare briefing materials, talking points, and media engagement plans for OpenAI spokespeople.
  5. Build and maintain relationships with journalists, creators and influencers across business, technology, developer, start-up and venture capital communities across EMEA.

Skills

Required

  • Professional PR experience (agency or in-house)
  • expertise in technology, business, start-up or developer communications across multiple channels (owned and earned)
  • Strong creativity and proactive media and influencer relations skills
  • proven ability to devise and manage campaigns for business, founder and technical audiences
  • Experience supporting a busy media relations team and senior spokespeople
  • strong organisational skills
  • ability to manage multiple requests, events and deadlines in a fast-moving environment
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with teams such as B2B, start-up, developer relations, global affairs, legal, marketing and product

Nice to have

  • ambitious
  • deeply curious about technology
  • excited by the next frontier in how businesses are built and how developers create

What the JD emphasized

  • strong, hands-on PR professional
  • small, high-impact team
  • support start-up, developer and B2B communications
  • build awareness, understanding and trust with founders, developers and business audiences
  • show how OpenAI helps companies build, scale and create
  • how developers are using our technology at the next frontier of work and innovation
  • Lead the day-to-day delivery
  • building proactive plans
  • landing deeper stories, content and case studies
  • Manage and support the delivery of creative, proactive communications campaigns, launches and events
  • inspire, educate and build trust with business and technical audiences
  • Oversee a programme of events, media engagements and influencer activations
  • working closely with start-up, developer and business communities
  • Help prepare briefing materials, talking points, and media engagement plans
  • Build and maintain relationships with journalists, creators and influencers
  • Professional PR experience (agency or in-house)
  • expertise in technology, business, start-up or developer communications
  • Strong creativity and proactive media and influencer relations skills
  • proven ability to devise and manage campaigns for business, founder and technical audiences
  • Experience supporting a busy media relations team and senior spokespeople
  • strong organisational skills
  • ability to manage multiple requests, events and deadlines in a fast-moving environment
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally
  • ambitious, deeply curious about technology
  • excited by the next frontier in how businesses are built and how developers create