Global Head of Events
San Francisco · 14+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 14+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
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.
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About the role
- OpenAI is seeking a Global Head of Events to lead a large, established global events and production team.
- The role involves setting the direction for the event portfolio, focusing investment on key experiences, and working closely with the executive team.
Responsibilities
- Set OpenAI’s global events strategy and focus investment on the experiences that matter most.
- Partner with executives on event priorities, programming, and participation in key moments.
- Create flagship gatherings and original formats that bring our products, ideas, and communities together.
- Work across Brand, Creative, Product, Research, and Communications to create thoughtful, cohesive attendee experiences.
- Lead and develop a global events and production team, while helping regional teams adapt experiences for their markets.
- Own budgets, agencies, vendors, and complex production in partnership with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security.
- Oversee in-house production for town halls, webinars, and film projects.
- Partner with Revenue Marketing, Field Marketing, and developer teams on audience goals and follow-through; connect live, digital, and hybrid events to engagement beyond the room.
- Define success across product understanding, adoption, community, customer relationships, brand, and business results, using feedback and AI to improve future experiences.
Requirements
- 14+ years of experience in global events, experiential marketing, and large-scale production, including leadership of teams, budgets, and programs across multiple markets.
- A track record of creating distinctive flagship experiences and building the teams and processes to deliver them consistently.
- Strong creative judgment and an understanding of how to design experiences for developers, business leaders, customers, partners, and communities.
- Experience developing leaders, setting priorities across a broad portfolio, and guiding an established team through change.
- Experience leading complex live and recorded productions, managing agencies and significant budgets, and partnering with senior stakeholders.
- The ability to connect event investment to meaningful outcomes while keeping the attendee experience central.
- An entrepreneurial approach to ambiguity, curiosity about AI, and firsthand experience using it to improve your work.
Benefits
- relocation assistance
Workplace
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
- Occasional travel will be required
Skills
- AI
