The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems.

Our Communications team includes PR/Media Relations, Internal Communications, Events, Design, Community & Social, and other strategic comms functions. This team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI.

About the Role

As Social Media Manager, Developers, you will own OpenAI’s developer social strategy and execution. You will turn model releases, API platform updates, and Codex improvements into crisp, technically accurate content that drives launch-day excitement and clarity, then sustained awareness of our developer offerings. You will partner across Comms, Product, Engineering, Design, and Go-to-Market to plan calendars, craft narratives, and measure impact.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Own @OpenAIDevs on X end-to-end: strategy, calendar, publishing, replies, and measurement.

• Expand our footprint to more social channels (e.g. Reddit), and scale our reach internationally.

• Announce new products (from new models to new buttons) by turning specs and changelogs into high-signal posts, threads, and short videos that resonate with our developer audience.

• Partner with PM/Eng/Marketing to develop channel-specific launch strategies that cut through noise.

• Manage launch and real-time content around milestones, changelogs, incidents, and follow-ups with tight approvals.

• Create visuals with Design and ship lightweight demos that show usage, limits, and best practices.

• Track reach, engagement, sentiment, CTR, and share-of-voice; report insights to Product and Comms to inform roadmaps.

• Establish tone, guardrails, and QA for technical accuracy and consistent style.

We're seeking someone with experience including:

• Has 5+ years in developer-facing social, technical marketing, or devrel content.

• Writes clearly at the code and product layers; you can read API docs and verify claims.

• Has shipped content for fast, high-stakes launches with precise timing and approvals.

• Operates fluently with PM, Eng, Research, Legal, and Comms; strong editorial judgment.

• Knows platform mechanics on X and emerging channels; test, measure, iterate.

• Is motivated by OpenAI’s mission and excited to help developers build with AI.

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $240K