Executive Business Partner, EMEA (Strategy)

OpenAI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Executive Business Partner to serve as a trusted advisor to the UK & Nordics leadership and broader regional leaders. You will help leaders operate effectively by creating structure, coordinating priorities, and improving cadence across markets and time zones.

You will coordinate high-level communications, schedule management, travel planning, and confidential support while maintaining a balance of diplomacy, humility, and decisiveness in a fast paced, hard-tech environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a cross-functional executive assistant role or similar support function.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders (GM, UK & Nordics; EMEA Communications; future EMEA Marketing leader) to enable strategic initiatives.
• Create structure, drive coordination, and strengthen operating cadence across markets, functions and time zones.
• Anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and build connections to support effective collaboration and execution.

Skills

Executive support

Cross-functional collaboration

EMEA experience

Time-zone coordination

Discretion

Strong communication

Travel coordination

G Suite / Google Workspace

Cultural intelligence

Prior startup experience

Tools

Google Calendar

Docs

Sheets

Gmail

Job description

About the Team

Our Executive Business Partners serve as trusted advisors and collaborators to OpenAI’s executives and leaders, bringing strong communication, sound judgment, and operational excellence to their teams. We elevate leadership impact by anticipating needs, streamlining processes, and providing comprehensive support so our leaders can focus on their highest-impact priorities. Through strong relationships and a deep understanding of business objectives, we help teams navigate complexity, achieve key milestones, and contribute to OpenAI’s growth and success.

Our leadership team reflects OpenAI’s culture and core values and is a mission-driven, kind, and thoughtful group. We take pride in creating a work environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and authenticity, making OpenAI an excellent place to work for highly accomplished professionals.

OpenAI is expanding its presence across EMEA, building the teams and leadership needed to support our growth across the region.

In this role, you will:

Partner with our GM, UK & Nordics, our EMEA Communications leader, and a future EMEA Marketing leader. These leaders work closely with our Managing Director, EMEA, other regional GMs, and teams across Sales, Policy, Partnerships, and beyond to advance OpenAI’s presence in the region. You’ll help these leaders and their teams operate effectively by creating structure, driving coordination, and strengthening the operating cadence across markets, functions, and time zones. Working across regional business leadership, communications, and marketing, you’ll anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and build connections that support effective collaboration and execution.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years experience in a cross-functional executive assistant role or similar support function.
• Successfully supported multiple leaders in the past.
• Worked in a hard tech startup or similar environment.
• Experience working across EMEA markets and collaborating with U.S.-based HQ teams.
• High cross-cultural EQ and ability to tailor communication styles for diverse stakeholders.
• Strong operational rigor - able to run cadences, track priorities, and maintain alignment across time zones.
• Comfortable supporting complex, rapid travel across international regions.
• Strong communication - being able to tailor a message appropriate to a specific audience (writing an email to a Senator vs. a Customer vs. an Exec).
• Discretion - this role will have exposure to sensitive knowledge so must be rock solid on confidentiality.
• Humility/diplomacy - this role has the potential to accrue power in a unique ways, but we want this person to be decisive and make noncontroversial decisions.
• Very fluent in Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc. and other modern productivity software, and are excited to learn and use new tools.
• Genuine interest in the technology we’re building and the transformative potential of 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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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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