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Seattle, Washington, United States
Hybrid
About the Team
Our Executive Operations team serves as trusted advisors and collaborators to OpenAI's executives and leaders, focused on strong communication and operational excellence across teams. With a focus on elevating the impact and efficiency of leadership, we anticipate needs, streamline processes, and provide comprehensive support to ensure our executives can focus on high-impact initiatives. We are pivotal in driving success and achieving key milestones by cultivating strong relationships and leveraging our deep understanding of business objectives. With a commitment to excellence and a proactive approach, we are dedicated to empowering our executives and contributing to the overall growth and success of the company.
Our leadership team reflects OpenAI’s culture and core values and is a mission-driven, kind, and thoughtful group. We take pride in creating a work environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and authenticity, making OpenAI an excellent place to work for highly accomplished professionals.
About the Role
This team member will be a proactive and adaptable partner to leaders, supporting complex calendar and schedule management, expenses, team meetings and events, and travel as needed. The role requires a high level of coordination across internal and external engagements, working closely with other members of Executive Operations.
This role is based in Seattle, WA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will
Manage complex calendars, balancing competing priorities while ensuring leaders’ time is aligned with business needs.
Coordinate internal and external meetings, resolve scheduling conflicts, and facilitate effective communication across stakeholders.
Plan and manage domestic and international travel, ensuring seamless logistics and execution.
Support team operations, including All Hands meetings, offsites, happy hours, and other team events.
Process and manage expense reports in accordance with company policies.
Build strong working relationships across teams and develop trusted partnerships with the leaders you support.
Help improve operating rhythms, identify opportunities to streamline processes, and contribute to operational excellence.
Collaborate closely with other members of Executive Operations to support high-impact initiatives and cross-functional work.
Exercise sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion when handling confidential information.
You might thrive in this role if you have
4 to 7 years of executive support, executive operations, or similar experience.
Experience supporting one or more senior leaders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Demonstrated experience managing complex calendars, scheduling across multiple stakeholders, and resolving competing priorities.
Experience coordinating complex travel, meetings, and other operational needs with strong attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor communication to different audiences.
A collaborative mindset and enjoy partnering across teams to solve problems and move work forward.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to operate independently in an environment with changing priorities.
Fluency with Google Workspace, Slack, and modern productivity tools, with curiosity to learn new technologies.
Interest in AI and the technology OpenAI is building.
Comfort working in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment.
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.
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