OpenAI Expands Communication Team Amidst Regulatory Challenges
By
Haroon Aremu
OpenAI is growing its communications department with the addition of new leads for product, policy, and partnerships communications, Axios has discovered.
The expansion of the OpenAI PR team, which has doubled in size over the past year, reflects its efforts to garner support amidst heightened regulatory scrutiny, legal challenges, and public skepticism.
OpenAI has charged Liz Bourgeois to oversee policy communications, Lindsay McCallum to manage product and research communications, and Steve Sharpe to handle partnership communications.
Bourgeois, the company’s inaugural communications hire based in Washington D.C., previously served as the Chief Communications Officer for the recruitment platform Handshake and held key communication roles at the U.S. Treasury Department and Meta. McCallum, a former employee of Twitter, most recently directed communications at the venture capital firm Headline. Sharpe, who joined OpenAI earlier this year, brings extensive experience in communications from his tenure at Sequoia, Slack, and Intuit.
According to OpenAI’s Head of Public Relations Lindsey Held, education remains paramount as AI technology progresses rapidly. “We are dedicated to educating diverse audiences about our AI tools while maintaining transparency and emphasizing our safety efforts,” Held remarked.
OpenAI, renowned for creations like ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, and Sora, is poised to further develop its communications team and is actively recruiting for media relations positions across Europe.
