Senior Events Manager, Feel The AGI

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About The Team

The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team at OpenAI designs and manages spaces, programs, and services that empower our employees and advance our mission. Our team covers a diverse range of functions, including leasing, global operations, analytics, construction, workplace experience, and employee services. We strive to optimize the employee experience while maintaining operational excellence and financial discipline by focusing on flexibility, cost effectiveness, intentional design, and scalable, people-centric solutions.

About The Role

We're looking for a seasoned events leader to help bring "Feel the AGI" experiences to life for all OpenAI employees — and eventually to communities across the globe. This role will lead high-impact, large-scale events that build culture, spark meaningful dialogue, and create lasting moments that connect people to OpenAI's mission. This person will partner closely with leaders across Research, Design, Workplace, Comms, People, and Executive teams to bring these gatherings to life with strategic intent and operational excellence.

In This Role You Will Be

• Lead the strategy, design, and execution of global "Feel the AGI" events that engage employees, senior leaders, and external partners.
• Produce experiences ranging from intimate gatherings to high-profile, multi-day events with policymakers and industry leaders.
• Partner across cross-functional teams (research, design, workplace, comms, people, leadership) to ensure events are strategically aligned and operationally excellent.
• Serve as the strategic lead for OpenAI's first company-wide San Francisco gathering in two years — embedding the "Feel the AGI" vision throughout the week-long programming.
• Build and nurture an external network of AI ecosystem partners, talent, and thought leaders to participate in and amplify events.
• Uphold a creative vision that is meaningful, hopeful, and realistic — while ensuring flawless execution and exceptional attendee experience.
• Develop scalable event strategies, playbooks, and operational frameworks to support global expansion of these programs.
• Manage timelines, budgets, and cross-functional workstreams with precision.

You might thrive in this role if these describe your qualifications

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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Compensation Range

$295K

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Research Services

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