OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company

OpenAI’s main communications officer, Hannah Wong, announced internally connected Monday that she is leaving the institution successful January, WIRED has learned. In a connection to WIRED, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed the departure.

“Hannah has played a defining relation successful shaping however radical recognize OpenAI and the enactment we do,” said CEO Sam Altman and CEO of applications Fidji Simo successful a associated statement. “She has an bonzer quality to bring clarity to analyzable ideas, and to bash it with attraction and grace. We’re profoundly grateful for her enactment and concern these past 5 years, and we privation her the precise best.”

Wong joined OpenAI successful 2021 erstwhile it was a comparatively tiny probe laboratory and has led the company’s communications squad arsenic ChatGPT has grown into 1 of the world’s largest user products. She was considered instrumental successful starring the institution done the PR situation that was Altman’s little ouster and rehiring successful 2023—a play the institution internally calls “the blip.” Wong assumed the main communications serviceman relation successful August 2024 and has expanded the company’s communications squad since then.

In a drafted LinkedIn station shared with WIRED, Wong said that OpenAI’s VP of communications, Lindsey Held, volition pb the company’s communications squad until a caller main communications serviceman is hired. OpenAI’s main selling officer, Kate Rouch, is starring the hunt for Wong’s replacement.

“These years person been aggravated and profoundly formative,” said Wong successful the LinkedIn post. “I’m grateful I got to assistance archer OpenAI’s story, present ChatGPT and different unthinkable products to the world, and stock much astir the radical forging the way to AGI during an bonzer infinitesimal of maturation and momentum.”

Wong says she looks guardant to spending much clip with her hubby and kids arsenic she figures retired the adjacent section successful her career.

Update: 12/15/2025, 7:30 p.m. EDT: WIRED has clarified Kate Rouch’s title.