OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, introduced internally on Monday that she is leaving the corporate in January, WIRED has discovered. In a press release to WIRED, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wooden confirmed the departure.
“Hannah has performed a defining function in shaping how folks perceive OpenAI and the work we do,” stated CEO Sam Altman and CEO of functions Fidji Simo in a joint assertion. “She has a unprecedented means to carry readability to advanced concepts, and to do it with care and style. We’re deeply grateful for her management and partnership these final 5 years, and we want her the easiest.”
Wong joined OpenAI in 2021 when it was a comparatively small analysis lab and has led the corporate’s communications group as ChatGPT has grown into one of many world’s largest client merchandise. She was thought of instrumental in main the corporate via the PR disaster that was Altman’s transient ouster and rehiring in 2023—a interval the corporate internally calls “the blip.” Wong assumed the chief communications officer function in August 2024 and has expanded the corporate’s communications group since then.
In a drafted LinkedIn publish shared with WIRED, Wong stated that OpenAI’s VP of communications, Lindsey Held, will lead the corporate’s communications group till a brand new chief communications officer is employed. OpenAI’s chief advertising and marketing officer, Kate Rouch, is main the seek for Wong’s substitute.
“These years have been intense and deeply formative,” stated Wong within the LinkedIn publish. “I’m grateful I acquired to assist inform OpenAI’s story, introduce ChatGPT and different unbelievable merchandise to the world, and share extra concerning the folks forging the trail to AGI throughout a unprecedented second of progress and momentum.”
Wong says she seems to be ahead to spending extra time along with her husband and youngsters as she figures out the subsequent chapter in her profession.
Replace: 12/15/2025, 7:30 pm EDT: WIRED has clarified Kate Rouch’s title.
