Administrative Business Partner, Global Affairs

About the Global Affairs Team

Global Affairs (GA) leads OpenAI’s engagement with governments, policymakers, civil society, and international institutions around the world. The team works to ensure OpenAI’s technologies are developed and deployed responsibly—aligned with global norms and informed by real-world policy, regulatory, and geopolitical considerations.

GA spans government relations, public policy, international strategy, and external partnerships, serving as a bridge between OpenAI’s technical work and the external environment in which it operates. The org helps anticipate regulatory trends, shape thoughtful policy outcomes, and support leadership in navigating complex global issues as AI adoption scales worldwide.

Our leadership team reflects OpenAI’s culture and core values and is deeply mission-driven, kind, and thoughtful. We take pride in fostering a collaborative environment grounded in open communication and authenticity, making OpenAI an exceptional place for highly accomplished professionals to do their best work.

We’re looking for an Executive Business Partner to provide high-trust operational and strategic support to two executives within Global Affairs, enabling leaders to stay focused on external engagement, policy priorities, and cross-functional coordination across OpenAI.

About the Role

The Executive Business Partner will be a proactive and adaptable partner to executives, managing complex scheduling, coordinating projects, and optimizing workflows. This role requires independence, task-level ownership, and a deep understanding of OpenAI’s mission to foster AGI that benefits humanity. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, rapidly-evolving business priorities, and can drive best practices to help scale exec and team operations.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC. 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:

• Build strong connections within the immediate team and across other departments, becoming a trusted partner to leaders. This includes an understanding of team dynamics, priorities, and stakeholders, facilitating seamless coordination on high-stakes projects.
• Excel in sharing information clearly and efficiently, adapting communication styles for a broad range of audiences.
• Balance the calendars and priorities of multiple leaders, demonstrating prioritization skills and agility in adapting to shifts in priorities, while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Operate with discretion and independence, proactively optimizing processes and flagging risks, while ensuring sensitive information is handled with care.

You might thrive in this role if you have / are:

• 5+ years of experience in an Executive Business Partner, Chief of Staff, or senior executive support role, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Proven experience supporting multiple senior leaders with complex, highly cross-functional portfolios, including significant external engagement.
• Comfortable operating at the intersection of policy, government affairs, international strategy, legal, and communications, and partnering closely with internal stakeholders across these functions.
• Expert at managing and optimizing extremely high-volume, high-stakes calendars, including external meetings with global partners, policymakers, and senior executives.
• Exceptional attention to detail—not as a personality trait, but as an exercised functional skill (e.g., mastery of project-based tools, tracking near- and long-term deliverables, anticipating dependencies and risks).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment to tailor messaging appropriately across audiences—from external partners and policymakers to internal executive leadership.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment, with a strong understanding of when to share information and when to hold it confidentially.
• An independent operator who can prioritize, problem-solve, and execute with minimal direction in a dynamic environment.
• A strong one-team mindset, with a collaborative approach and comfort partnering across Global Affairs and the broader OpenAI organization.
• Highly fluent in Slack, Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and other modern productivity tools, with a willingness to adopt new systems and workflows.
• Genuine interest in global policy, international affairs, and the responsible development and deployment of AI.
• Comfortable working in a rapidly evolving, often ambiguous environment, and able to maintain clarity, momentum, and calm amid change.
• 5-7 years is ideal, YoE can range from 5-12 based on the domain experience needed.
• Business executive-level support experience: VP, senior leaders.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial