Executive Business Partner, APAC

About the Role

The Executive Business Partner will be a proactive and adaptable partner to executives, managing complex scheduling, coordinating projects, and optimizing workflows. This role requires independence, task-level ownership, and a deep understanding of OpenAI’s mission to foster AGI that benefits humanity. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, rapidly-evolving business priorities, and can drive best practices to help scale exec and team operations.

This role is based in Singapore. We follow a hybrid work model of three days in the office each week.

In this role, you will

• Build strong connections within the immediate team and across other departments, becoming a trusted partner to leaders. This includes an understanding of team dynamics, priorities, and stakeholders, facilitating seamless coordination on high-stakes projects.
• Excel in sharing information clearly and efficiently, adapting communication styles for a broad range of audiences.
• Balance the calendars and priorities of multiple leaders, demonstrating prioritization skills and agility in adapting to shifts in priorities, while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Operate with discretion and independence, proactively optimizing processes and flagging risks, while ensuring sensitive information is handled with care.

You might thrive in this role if you

• 5+ years experience in a cross-functional executive assistant role or similar support function.
• Successfully supported multiple leaders in the past.
• Worked in a hard tech startup or similar environment.
• Experience working across APAC markets and collaborating with U.S.-based HQ teams.
• High cross-cultural EQ and ability to tailor communication styles for diverse stakeholders.
• Strong operational rigor — able to run cadences, track priorities, and maintain alignment across time zones.
• Comfortable supporting complex, rapid travel across international regions.
• Strong communication - being able to tailor a message appropriate to a specific audience (writing an email to a Senator vs. a Customer vs. an Exec)
• Discretion - this role will have exposure to sensitive knowledge so must be rock solid on confidentiality
• Humility/diplomacy - this role has the potential to accrue power in a unique ways, but we want this person to be decisive and make noncontroversial decisions
• Very fluent in Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc. and other modern productivity software, and are excited to learn and use new tools.
• Genuine interest in the technology we’re building and the transformative potential of AI