Reporter, OpenAI

Newsletter Jobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage for员工

Parental leave

Generous PTO

401(k) matching

FSAs for healthcare and dependent care

Wellness stipend

Cell phone reimbursement

Office lunches

Commuter benefits

Diversity and inclusive environment

Job summary

The Information seeks a Reporter to own coverage of OpenAI, the influential tech leader driving AI breakthroughs and policy discussions. You’ll cover leadership, business, products, and industry impact with a focus on clear storytelling.

You don’t need a tech beat background—just a proven ability to break news, build trusted sources, and explain complex topics to a broad audience. Join a collaborative newsroom in San Francisco with a hybrid model and a strong culture of ambitious journalism.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of breaking news and building high-level sources you can trust.
• Fierce curiosity about power, money, and institutions; tech background is a plus but not required.
• The judgment and analytical rigor to explain complex, fast-moving stories clearly.
• The drive to juggle fast scoops with ambitious, high-impact investigations.
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, the San Francisco Bay Area with a flexible hybrid model (three days in-office).

Responsibilities

• Cover OpenAI's leaders, business, AI breakthroughs, products, policy fights, and impact on how the world works.
• Build trust with sources and translate complexity into narrative.
• Collaborate with the AI reporter and other desks to set pace for industry coverage.
• Deliver scoops and analyses that shape public conversation about technology.

Skills

Breaking news

Source building

Curiosity

Analytical rigor

Story telling

Job description

About The Information

The Information is the go-to source of in-depth reporting for the most influential leaders in technology and business. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, our original, high-quality journalism has the power to inform the most consequential decisions shaping our future, and we’ve built a community of 700,000 active readers who depend on us to do just that. We have a financially healthy business, plenty of capital, and big ambitions to grow our team and business.

About The Role

The Information is looking for a Reporter to own coverage of the most important technology company to emerge in a generation: OpenAI. This is one of the highest-profile beats in journalism today — the company behind ChatGPT sits at the center of the AI revolution and is reshaping business, policy, geopolitics, and daily life. We're looking for someone to make this story theirs.

You don't need a background covering tech to be right for this job. We're looking, first and foremost, for an incredible reporter—someone who knows how to build trust with hard-to-reach sources, break news that moves markets and shapes the public conversation, and turn complexity into narrative. If you've proven you can do that in politics, finance, national security, sports, entertainment, or anything else and you're hungry to go deep on the biggest story in the world right now, we want to talk to you.

You'll cover OpenAI's leaders, its business, its AI breakthroughs, its new products, its policy fights, and its impact on how the world works and lives. You'll join a collaborative, high-performing newsroom, working alongside our AI reporter Stephanie Palazzolo and partnering with seasoned journalists covering enterprise software, chips, venture capital, and finance, setting the pace for how this industry gets covered.

The Information has provided readers with extensive coverage of OpenAI, including scoops on upcoming products (e.g. web search and software that controls web browsers); the company’s move away from Microsoft; why executives last year bristled at Sam Altman’s management style; and internal projections about its unprecedented cash burn and revenue. Our team was first to report it was hitting limits with traditional model training, how its reasoning models are impacting the real world, and internal concerns sparked by a new model architecture, loop transformers, that make the AI harder to monitor.

And the story is only getting bigger: OpenAI has undergone a major leadership shake-up as it prepares for a potential IPO, including the departure of senior executive Fidji Simo and a larger operating role for co-founder Greg Brockman. The company is also on track to pursue one of the largest IPOs in history in the coming years.

This is a rare opportunity for a proven reporter to step onto the biggest stage in journalism, raise their national profile, and define how the world understands the company at the center of the AI era.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of breaking news and building high-level sources who trust you with hard information — on any beat
• Fierce curiosity about power, money, and how institutions really work (a background in tech is a plus, not a requirement)
• The judgment and analytical rigor to make sense of complex, fast-moving stories and tell them clearly
• The drive and discipline to juggle fast-turn scoops alongside ambitious, high-impact investigations
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer a flexible hybrid model — three days a week in-office — built to support real collaboration

Why Join Us?

At The Information, you'll work alongside some of the sharpest, most driven reporters and editors in the business, shaping how the world understands the defining industry of our time. We're a newsroom that backs ambitious journalism with real resources, and we're committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment where the best ideas — and the best scoops — win. If you're ready to make your mark on the biggest tech story there is, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well‑being of our employees and their families, including:

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
• Paid parental leave to support and empower new parents
• Generous paid time off (PTO) that increases with tenure
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Fitness and wellness stipend to encourage a healthy lifestyle
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement
• Company-sponsored lunches in the office every Monday
• Commuter benefits
• A supportive, inclusive, and diverse work environment with a zero-tolerance policy for harassment

Salary Range: $130,000 - $220,000 USD Annually + Bonus + Benefits

The salary range posted is based on the company's good faith belief at the time of the posting. Actual compensation may vary above or below this range based on factors such as location, work experience, and skill level.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to diversity and to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages.