Head of APAC Growth Markets, Global Affairs

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Achieving this goal requires deep engagement with policymakers, regulators, institutions, and communities shaping the future of AI.

The Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to ensure that external perspectives inform our work and that policy frameworks support the safe and beneficial development of AI. We work closely with research, product, legal, communications, and go-to-market teams to anticipate emerging issues, shape responsible policy outcomes, and advance OpenAI’s mission around the world.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as Head of APAC Growth Markets, Global Affairs. This role will lead OpenAI’s policy engagement, strategic partnerships, and regional campaigns across a portfolio of high-priority growth markets in Asia Pacific, including Southeast Asia and other markets selected based on strategic opportunity, regulatory developments, and company priorities.

Based in Singapore and reporting to the Head of Asia-Pacific, Global Affairs, you will build trusted relationships with governments, regulators, and influential institutions; shape regional market strategies; and help create the policy and operating conditions for OpenAI’s long-term success.

This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, regulation, and economic transformation. You will represent OpenAI externally, help shape AI policy debates and outcomes, and partner with governments and ecosystem leaders to advance responsible AI adoption across APAC growth markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead OpenAI’s engagement strategy across a dynamic portfolio of APAC growth markets, with priorities refreshed based on market opportunity, policy developments, strategic partnerships, and company needs.

• Build and sustain senior relationships with ministers, regulators, senior officials, multilateral institutions, industry leaders, universities, NGOs, and civil society organizations across relevant 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.

• Anticipate, track, and shape legislative and regulatory developments related to frontier AI, safety, privacy, competition, digital infrastructure, and economic opportunity.

• Serve as OpenAI’s senior policy and government engagement lead across the portfolio, representing the company in senior-level meetings, summits, conferences, and bilateral dialogues.

• Partner closely with research, engineering, product, legal, communications, finance, and go-to-market teams to ensure external engagement strategies are aligned with company priorities and executed effectively.

• Identify emerging opportunities and risks early, develop proactive engagement plans, and ensure regional activities are tied to clear outcomes and measurable impact.

• Lead and develop high-performing talent across multiple markets, fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, creativity, and high standards.

You Should Thrive in This Role If You

• Are politically astute, with strong judgment and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments across APAC.

• Are a strategic operator who can move between senior external engagement, policy strategy, partnership development, and hands-on execution.

• Have a strong track record of building trusted relationships with governments, regulators, institutions, and ecosystem leaders.

• Can translate technical, policy, and geopolitical issues into clear, compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.

• Operate effectively across cultures, markets, and time zones with humility, adaptability, and execution discipline.

• Thrive in cross-functional environments and can bring people together around shared goals.

We’re Looking For a Blend Of

• 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.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

• Chinese language fluency or professional working proficiency is a plus.

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