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# Early Adopter & Product Builder Intern, Creative AI at OpenArt AI

- **Company:** OpenArt AI
- **Location:** San Carlos, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart/8dd52ba6-a5b6-40b1-95fe-50de352fa254

## Job description

🎨 About OpenArt OpenArt is an AI Storytelling and Visual Creation Platform used by millions worldwide. We’re building the next generation of creative tools powered by cutting-edge AI, enabling anyone to create videos, visuals, characters, and stories with unprecedented speed and imagination. We believe the future of creativity is AI-native, and we’re shaping that future. 🚀 Why Join OpenArt

- Real impact through leadership exposure — work directly with C-level leaders and the key decision-making committee, with opportunities for your ideas and judgment to shape a product used by more than 10M users worldwide.
- A direct role in growth strategy — help leadership assess where to expand, which customers and partners to prioritize, and how to plan for scale.
- Exposure to the creative AI ecosystem — research the market and gather insights from creative professionals, agencies, model providers, operators and investors.
- Return offer opportunities — strong interns will be considered for full-time roles across product, engineering, research and GTM.

## About the Role

You'll help shape how OpenArt feels to use. This role is for builders with a technical background and strong product taste: people who follow AI progress closely and know how to turn new capabilities into features creative professionals love.

Employment Type Year-round internship with rolling start dates: full-time in summer, part-time (15–20 hrs/week) during the fall and spring semesters. Minimum 3-month commitment

## What You’ll Do

- Track tech progress: follow new AI models, tools and tech trends at the cutting edge, often before public launch through early access, understand what each makes possible, and bring a regular take on what OpenArt should adopt or build.
- Turn ideas into features: translate new capabilities into feature ideas, prototype them, and work with designers and engineers to ship them.
- Test hands-on: run usability tests on new features and benchmark competing creative AI products, then form a clear judgment on what's great, what's broken and what to do next, and get the team aligned on it.
- Partner across teams: work with Growth and Community on creator programs, challenges and showcases that highlight great work made on OpenArt.
- Stay close to users: listening to users is part of doing this job well. Talk with them every day (interviews, Discord, social), understand what they need, and let that shape every feature you push for.

## What We’re Looking For

Core Requirements

- Studying or trained in CS, engineering, HCI, design or a related technical field. We welcome undergraduate and graduate students at any stage, as well as candidates on a gap year or in other situations.
- Proactively using AI creative tools (OpenArt, Midjourney, Runway, Krea, Higgsfield, ComfyUI or similar) with strong opinions on what makes them great or frustrating.
- A builder with product taste: you have engineering skills (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, working with APIs), you've built or shipped something (an app, side project, tool or design), and you can explain the choices behind it.

## Nice to Have

- Close involvement in developer and creative professional communities, which gives you early exposure to new trends and high-value information.
- Good taste in what you read and strong learning habits, so you catch important trends early.

Work Setup

- Bay Area required (hybrid allowed)
- Visa sponsorship available

## Compensation & Benefits

The expected base salary range for this role is $40 to $50 per hour, plus the same in-office benefits as our full-time employees.

## About OpenArt AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that enables users to generate, edit, and remix images, videos, characters, audio, and 3D worlds through a single interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Coco Mao (CEO), John Qiao (CTO) – both former Google engineers

## Core Business
- Primary Industry: Technology, Information and Internet; AI‑powered creative tools
- Target Customers: B2C (millions of individual creators) and B2B (brands, studios, content teams)
- Mission Statement: “Build the future of storytelling with AI.”

## Products & Services
- **Image Generation & Editing** – Generate images using models like GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0, and edit within the same canvas (erase, expand, restyle, upscale to 4K).
- **Video Generation** – Create videos up to 15 seconds at up to 4K resolution, choosing from models such as Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 Omni, and Sora 2. Refine or edit each generation.
- **Character Builder** – Build consistent characters using reference images or text; characters can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same face and style.
- **World** – Generate persistent, navigable 3D spatial environments from a single prompt or reference images; add characters, place objects, take still photos, or export to 3D tools.
- **Audio** – AI voiceovers in 30+ languages with lip‑sync, original music generation, and sound effects (footsteps, rain, etc.). Export as WAV or MP3 timed to video.
- **OpenArt Director** – Storyboard and refine video sequences using natural‑language chat for granular shot‑by‑shot control.
- **Smart Shot** – Convert a single prompt into 3–5 cinematic cuts with varied angles, camera moves, and visual consistency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Recurring Revenue**: Grew from $10.5 M to over $70 M in 2025 (7× growth) [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
  - **Monthly Active Users**: 8 million+ [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Total Funding**: $40 M+ across three rounds:
  - Seed (June 2023): $5 M led by DCM Ventures and CapitalOven [[tracxn.com]](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
  - Venture Round (Aug 2025): $5 M [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Series A (2026–Q1): $30 M – $35 M (conflicting reports) led by Canaan Partners [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures, CapitalOven; partnerships with leading AI model providers (Seedream, Google Veo, Kling, etc.)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee headcount: 67 (1,172.7% YoY growth; 29.6% monthly growth) [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Presence in 17 countries across North America, Asia, and Europe
  - Hosted the world’s first AI Influencer Summit and produced “Bot House,” the first AI reality TV show

## Competitive Advantages
- **All‑in‑one platform**: Instead of juggling separate tools (Midjourney for images, Runway/Sora for video, etc.), users access images, video, characters, audio, and 3D worlds under a single subscription.
- **Character consistency**: A core differentiator – one character can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same look, enabling storytelling and AI influencers.
- **Model agnosticism**: The platform bundles multiple top‑tier AI models (Seedream, Veo, GPT Image, Kling, Sora, etc.), letting users pick the best option per project without paying multiple subscriptions.
- **Strong retention driven by storytelling**: The metric most watched is not ARR but how often creators return to deepen characters and expand universes.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the end‑to‑end creative platform for storytellers (characters, worlds, long‑form video)
- Expand the AI influencer and brand‑mascot market (e.g., AI Influencer Summit, Bot House reality show)
- Deepen integration of audio and video editing for professional studios
- Grow the engineering and product teams – “We’ve nearly doubled in size this year, and the pace isn’t slowing down.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑moving, lean team that “move[s] fast, over‑communicate[s], and put[s] storytelling at the heart of everything.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Growth trajectory**: Company experienced 7× ARR growth in one year and is actively hiring across departments (engineering, design, product, marketing)
- **Founders**: Ex‑Google (Coco Mao, John Qiao) with a track record of launching products at scale (short‑form video platform acquired by Google Search)
- **Work model**: Hybrid / office presence in San Francisco (HQ) and Redwood City; no formal remote‑first policy stated
- **Notable**: Free trial available for users; employees have backgrounds from top AI companies (Stability AI, Invideo, ImagineArt, etc.)

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
2. [openart.ai](https://openart.ai/)
3. [openart.ai/blog](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart)

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