Director of Events Management
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and develop an events-management team, oversee complex event portfolios, establish operating processes, manage agencies, align cross-functional partners, and track budgets, timelines, risks, and event outcomes.
Requirements
- 14+ years of event-management experience
- Experience leading complex event portfolios and managing teams
- Experience building teams and delivering through others
- Experience managing agency relationships, scopes, budgets, and performance
- Ability to influence across functions and seniority levels
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop the events-management team
- Prioritize projects, assess requests, and allocate portfolio capacity
- Build operating processes, project plans, approval paths, tools, and playbooks
- Manage agency selection, scopes of work, onboarding, and performance reviews
- Translate audience insights into accessible experiences and relevant content
- Align cross-functional partners on event goals, audiences, messaging, and decisions
- Partner with production leaders on responsibilities, handoffs, and delivery plans
- Maintain visibility into budgets, timelines, dependencies, and risks
- Establish measures of event outcomes and operational health
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax health, dependent-care, parking, and transit accounts
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 annual days for non-exempt employees
- Paid holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
