Policy and Partnerships Lead CEE and Baltics, Global Affairs

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires effective engagement with policymakers and the broader communities impacted by AI.

Our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the wider AI policymaking community. We work to ensure that insights from policymakers and external stakeholders inform OpenAI’s work and, in collaboration with colleagues across the organization, support the development of thoughtful regulation, industry standards, and the safe and beneficial development of AI.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep knowledge of the political, institutional, and technology-policy landscape across Central and Eastern Europe and/or the Baltics, with meaningful credibility in at least one priority market.
• Have an established network and experience building trusted relationships with policymakers, regulators, civil society, and other senior stakeholders.
• Understand EU policymaking and the interaction between Brussels-level policy, national politics, regulation, and implementation.
• Bring strong technology-policy judgment and an understanding of issues relevant to AI, such as privacy, data, competition, copyright, product safety, and consumer protection. Direct AI-policy experience is a significant plus.
• Have a track record of translating political relationships and policy objectives into concrete partnerships, programs, coalitions, campaigns, or other initiatives with meaningful impact.
• Are comfortable working across multiple countries and political environments, recognizing where a common regional approach creates leverage and where local nuance is essential.
• Are highly self-directed and able to manage multiple markets and workstreams through rapid cycles of analysis, decision-making, and execution.
• Build trust with senior stakeholders while exercising the judgment to challenge assumptions, reshape an approach, or advise against opportunities that are unlikely to have meaningful impact.
• Are an effective coalition builder who can bring together internal teams and external partners around a shared strategy.
• Communicate complex technical and policy concepts clearly to diverse audiences and have the executive presence to represent OpenAI in sensitive, senior-level settings.
• Bring strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Care deeply about the potential for AI to benefit society while remaining thoughtful about its risks and the responsibilities associated with its development and deployment.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, intellectual agility, and outstanding personal integrity.
• Are fluent in English. Professional proficiency in at least one CEE or Baltic language is strongly preferred, with Polish particularly valuable.

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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