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# Creative Director, Art at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $287k–$318k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c9a9e992-003a-4d02-a723-884e3eed6a9b

## Job description

## ABOUT THE TEAM

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.

## 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. 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 role sits at the intersection of conceptual thinking, visual craft, and business storytelling. You’ll partner closely with writers, designers, product marketers, sales and customer teams, product leaders, and external collaborators to develop big ideas and bring them to life across formats—from integrated campaigns and digital experiences to customer stories, films, events, and product storytelling. To us, creativity is a team sport. Ideas get better when you talk them through and build on each other’s thinking. We value curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance creative ambition with clarity and decisiveness.

## IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

- 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
- Provide creative leadership from early strategy and concept through final execution across multiple channels and formats
- Guide the visual direction of campaign photography, illustration, motion, film, digital experiences, events, and customer storytelling—sometimes hands-on, often through external collaborators
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Communications, and Research to turn complex technology and customer insights into credible, differentiated creative work
- Build visual systems that can extend across the B2B customer journey, from awareness and product education to industry events and customer engagement
- Help evolve OpenAI’s visual language for business audiences in ways that are distinctive, scalable, and expressive while remaining connected to the broader brand
- 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

YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU

- Have 10+ years of experience as an Art Director or Creative Director at a top-tier creative agency and/or in-house at a modern technology company, with experience in both strongly preferred
- Bring a strong background in visual design and art direction across channels, including integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, product storytelling, events, and customer marketing
- Have experience creating work for B2B, enterprise, developer, or other technically sophisticated audiences
- Are a conceptual thinker who can develop big creative ideas and guide them from early strategy through execution
- Know how to turn complex products, technical capabilities, and business challenges into visual stories that are clear, human, and memorable
- Have experience leading integrated campaigns and large-scale brand initiatives across different stages of the customer journey
- Can balance the need for enterprise credibility with the desire to create distinctive, culturally relevant work
- Are comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities, multiple stakeholders, and complex creative challenges
- Have exceptional design taste and a deep commitment to visual craft and storytelling
- Are a strong cross-functional collaborator who works effectively with creative, product marketing, product, sales, communications, and production partners
- Have experience guiding work through internal teams, agencies, and external creative vendors
- Balance creative ambition with clarity, precision, and strategic thinking

## 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
- Motion design or film art direction experience
- Experience leading visual storytelling for technical product launches, customer stories, or industry events
- Experience developing modular creative systems that can scale across regions, industries, channels, and customer segments
- 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

## 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 Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

## About OpenAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO.
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models)
- **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity.

## Products & Services
- **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows.
- **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.).
- **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions.
- **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system.
- **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI.
- **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent.
- **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference.
- **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products.

## Strategic Focus
- **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance).
- **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses.
- **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026).
- **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI.
- **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications.

## Sources
1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/)
2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/)
3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search)
4. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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