Art Director / Creative Director, Marketing

About the Team

The Marketing Design Team (Design Studio) is pivotal in shaping and maintaining OpenAI’s brand identity across all platforms and audiences. We work at the intersection of product development, communications, marketing, engineering, and research—delivering cohesive storytelling and brand experiences.

Our mission is to communicate the advancements and benefits of AGI with beauty, accessibility, transparency, and authenticity. Within this mission, the Web and Digital Experience Team plays a critical role in creating, managing, and scaling web and digital programs that reflect OpenAI’s brand and global objectives, fostering company-wide collaboration and innovative solutions.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Art Director / Creative Director to join our in-house creative team. In this role, you’ll concept and direct high-impact, multi-channel campaigns that elevate OpenAI’s brand and communicate the capabilities, benefits, and ethical considerations of our technology. You’ll partner closely with writers, designers, marketers, product leads, and external vendors to produce visually stunning work—from key visuals and web experiences to video storyboards, product trailers, and live event creative.

This is a role for a candidate passionate about ideas, a hands‑on visual thinker who enjoys shaping the big picture but isn’t afraid to get into the details. You’ll work on everything from concept to execution, helping OpenAI show up with clarity, humanity, and craft.

This role can be based in our San Francisco or New York offices. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will :

Lead the creative development of marketing campaigns, product launches, and brand moments—from concept to final execution

Develop and direct compelling visual narratives that bring OpenAI’s story and products to life

Translate abstract ideas and complex technology into clear, inspiring, and elegant visual communication

Collaborate with writers, designers, brand strategists, product marketing, and external creative partners

Provide visual direction for campaign photography, illustration, and video—sometimes hands‑on, sometimes through external vendors

Establish and maintain a high visual bar across all marketing outputs, ensuring consistency with OpenAI’s evolving brand identity

Contribute to the evolution of OpenAI’s brand system in ways that are scalable, distinctive, and expressive

You might thrive in this role if you :

Have 6+ years of experience as an Art Director at in‑house or at a top‑tier creative agency, with a portfolio that shows work for modern technology brands

Bring a strong background in visual design with fluency across channels—digital, social, film, print, and experiential

Are a conceptual thinker who can ideate strategically and visually across formats and campaigns

Are comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with shifting priorities, and have experience scaling ideas under tight timelines

Are passionate about design craft and committed to building systems and stories that elevate brand presence over time

Value collaboration and feedback, and thrive in cross‑functional environments with marketing, design, and product teams

Bonus :

Experience working with or designing for AI, developer tools, or emerging technologies

Motion design or video art direction experience

Comfort giving creative direction in Figma, Google Slides, or on‑set

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 Aff… Policy Statement.

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