Executive Business Partner, APAC

OpenAI; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research company in Singapore is seeking an Executive Business Partner to support their executives. This role requires a proactive individual with over 5 years of experience in a similar function, strong communication skills, and the ability to navigate complex environments. You'll manage scheduling, coordinate projects, and drive operational excellence in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a cross-functional executive assistant role or similar support function.
• Experience working across APAC markets and collaborating with U.S.-based HQ teams.
• Genuine interest in the technology we're building.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex scheduling and coordinate projects for executives.
• Build strong connections within teams and across departments.
• Proactively optimize processes while ensuring confidentiality.

Skills

Cross-functional executive assistant experience

High cross-cultural emotional intelligence

Strong communication skills

Operational rigor

Fluency in Google Workspace

Job description

About The Team

The GTM International team helps bring OpenAI’s products and impact to markets around the world, partnering with leaders, customers, and communities to accelerate responsible AI adoption. In this role, you’ll support our regional MD and APAC GTM leader to drive clarity, alignment, and momentum across time zones and fast‑moving priorities. You’ll navigate complex international environments, build connective tissue between APAC and HQ, and support leaders operating at global scale. If you love building structure in high‑growth environments, thrive in multicultural settings, and enjoy partnering closely with ambitious teams to unlock impact, you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Executive Business Partners serve as trusted advisors and collaborators to OpenAI's executives and leaders, focused on strong communication and operational excellence across teams. With a focus on elevating the impact and efficiency of leadership, we anticipate needs, streamline processes, and provide comprehensive support to ensure our executives can focus on high‑impact initiatives. We play a pivotal role in driving success and achieving key milestones by cultivating strong relationships and leveraging our deep understanding of business objectives. With a commitment to excellence and a proactive approach, we are dedicated to empowering our executives and contributing to the overall growth and success of the company.

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.

About The Role

The Executive Business Partner will be a proactive and adaptable partner to executives, managing complex scheduling, coordinating projects, and optimizing workflows. This role requires independence, task‑level ownership, and a deep understanding of OpenAI’s mission to foster AGI that benefits humanity. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, rapidly‑evolving business priorities, and can drive best practices to help scale exec and team operations.

This role is based in Singapore. We follow a hybrid work model of three days in the office each week.

In This Role, You Will

• Build strong connections within the immediate team and across other departments, becoming a trusted partner to leaders. This includes an understanding of team dynamics, priorities, and stakeholders, facilitating seamless coordination on high‑stakes projects.
• Excel in sharing information clearly and efficiently, adapting communication styles for a broad range of audiences.
• Balance the calendars and priorities of multiple leaders, demonstrating prioritization skills and agility in adapting to shifts in priorities, while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Operate with discretion and independence, proactively optimizing processes and flagging risks, while ensuring sensitive information is handled with care.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• 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 APAC 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 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 is 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 Affinitive 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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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Business Development and Sales

Industries

Research Services

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