Head of APAC Growth Markets, Global Affairs

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Singapore

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead OpenAI’s policy engagement, strategic partnerships, and regional campaigns across high-priority APAC growth markets including Southeast Asia and other markets determined by strategic opportunity, regulatory developments, and company priorities.
• Build and sustain senior-level relationships with ministers, regulators, senior government officials, multilateral institutions, industry leaders, universities, NGOs, and civil society organizations across APAC growth markets.
• Design and execute multi-market campaigns and flagship partnerships that advance responsible AI adoption, strengthen OpenAI’s regional presence, and support priority policy outcomes in the Asia Pacific region.
• Anticipate, track, and shape legislative and regulatory developments related to frontier AI, safety, privacy, competition, digital infrastructure, and economic opportunity across APAC.
• Represent OpenAI as the senior policy and government engagement lead in senior-level meetings, international summits, conferences, and bilateral dialogues across APAC growth markets.
• Partner closely with research, engineering, product, legal, communications, finance, and go-to-market teams to align external engagement strategies with company priorities and ensure effective cross-functional execution.
• Identify emerging policy opportunities and risks early, develop proactive engagement plans, and ensure regional activities are tied to clear, measurable outcomes and impact.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team across multiple APAC markets, fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, creativity, and high standards in policy and government engagement.
• Serve as OpenAI’s primary liaison to governments and institutions on AI-related policy matters, translating complex technical and geopolitical issues into clear, compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.
• Shape regional market strategies based on evolving policy landscapes, market dynamics, and company objectives, with responsibilities refreshed regularly based on strategic opportunity and regulatory developments.
• Navigate complex, multi-cultural stakeholder environments with political astuteness, judgment, and adaptability across diverse APAC markets and time zones.
• Operate with execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, balancing high-stakes external engagement with hands-on strategic planning and implementation.
• Promote OpenAI’s mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity through responsible AI adoption and collaborative policy frameworks across APAC.
• Maintain alignment with OpenAI’s global affairs strategy while adapting engagement approaches to local institutional contexts, cultural norms, and regulatory frameworks in APAC growth markets.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in government, public policy, international affairs, corporate affairs, market development, technology policy, or related fields.
• Significant experience working across Asia Pacific, including Southeast Asia.
• Strong relationships with policymakers, regulators, institutions, and ecosystem leaders across relevant APAC markets.
• Proven ability to lead high-stakes initiatives, shape external outcomes, and execute across multiple countries simultaneously.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong understanding of AI-related issues, including safety, privacy, competition, digital infrastructure, and economic opportunity.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the future of artificial general intelligence on a global scale.
• Work at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, regulation, and economic transformation with senior-level influence.
• Collaborate with world-class research, product, legal, and engineering teams at OpenAI.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team across diverse APAC markets with a culture of inclusion and accountability.
• Engage with governments, multilateral institutions, and ecosystem leaders to drive responsible AI adoption.
• Based in Singapore with flexibility to travel across APAC growth markets.

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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