OpenAI hires Uber's Jill Hazelbaker for corporate affairs
OpenAI has hired Uber President Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer to lead its global communications and positioning, bringing in a veteran of regulatory and reputational fights as scrutiny of AI grows.
OpenAI announced that Jill Hazelbaker will join the company as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. She will lead OpenAI's global communications and corporate positioning.
Hazelbaker comes from Uber, where she was President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. In that role she oversaw global communications, marketing, public policy, safety and people teams. During her decade at the company, OpenAI says, she played a central role in shaping Uber's reputation and handling complex regulatory and reputational challenges as it grew from a startup into a global platform.
Before Uber, she led communications and public policy at Snap. Earlier, at Google, she held senior roles overseeing corporate communications globally, communications across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and government relations in Europe. She started her career in U.S. politics. She was National Communications Director and Chief Spokesperson for Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, and Press Secretary to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
OpenAI said she will work with leaders across the company to "deepen public understanding of AI and strengthen trust in its mission." It described the hire as part of investing in the leadership needed to engage more deeply with the people and institutions shaping AI's future.
The announcement gives no start date and does not say who Hazelbaker will report to. It also does not say whether her remit includes public policy, which she ran at both Uber and Snap.