OpenAI
Creative Director, Art
San Francisco · Director · Contract
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About the role
- We're looking for an experienced Creative Director, Art to join our in-house creative team, focused on OpenAI's business audiences.
- In this role, you'll shape the visual direction and creative expression of our B2B brand across integrated campaigns, product launches, customer storytelling, and key industry moments.
- You'll help translate the capabilities of OpenAI's technology into clear and compelling stories for business leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams bringing AI into their organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the visual concepting and creative direction for B2B campaigns, product launches, customer stories, and key industry initiatives
- Develop compelling visual ideas that connect OpenAI's products and technical capabilities to customer needs, organizational transformation, and business outcomes
- Create work that resonates across a range of audiences, including enterprise leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams adopting AI
- Partner closely with Creative Directors, writers, designers, motion artists, producers, and product marketers to shape integrated campaign ideas
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Communications, and Research to turn complex technology and customer insights into credible, differentiated creative work
- Maintain a high bar for visual craft, conceptual thinking, and creative ambition, even when working within complex business or technical subject matter
- Lead multiple creative initiatives simultaneously with clarity, strong judgment, and creative conviction
- Bring a strong background in visual design and art direction across channels, including integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, product storytelling, events, and customer marketing
Requirements
- We value curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance creative ambition with clarity and decisiveness.
Nice to have
- Experience working on enterprise technology, developer platforms, AI, or emerging products
- Experience creating campaigns for audiences that span executive buyers, technical decision-makers, developers, and end users
- Experience leading visual storytelling for technical product launches, customer stories, or industry events
- Comfort giving creative direction in Figma, Google Slides, and production environments, including shoots and post-production
- Curiosity about AI, the future of work, and how organizations adopt transformative technologies
- We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.
- For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
- return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment
Benefits
- Build visual systems that can extend across the B2B customer journey, from awareness and product education to industry events and customer engagement
Company info
- OpenAI didn't begin as a traditional company.
- It began as an idea:
- that artificial intelligence could be developed in a way that benefits everyone.
- As a creative team, our role is to help make sure the work behind that idea is understood, as it leaves the lab and meets the world.
- This company works at the frontier of intelligence.
- Like any frontier, it's unfinished, constantly shifting, and still being explored.
- Our job is to stay close to that uncertainty and help shape how this story gets told, in a way that feels grounded and human.
- We do this through campaigns, launches, films, brand systems, and work that doesn't fit neatly into any of those categories yet.
- This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.
- The strongest work will make sophisticated products understandable without oversimplifying them-and connect what the technology can do with the real needs, ambitions, and outcomes of our customers.
This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.