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# Strategic Events Manager (Full-Time) at OpenArt AI

- **Company:** OpenArt AI
- **Location:** San Carlos California, United States
- **Compensation:** $140k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart/d0fb4dfd-dcb0-415a-af0d-27530a376850

## Job description

## About OpenArt

OpenArt AI is one of the largest AI creative platforms in the world, with millions of monthly active users. We work closely with leading AI model providers such as Google, OpenAI, Kling, and others. OpenArt has also been featured in major national media outlets including ABC, TIME, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch.

## About the Role

We’re looking for a Strategic Events Manager to help shape and execute OpenArt’s global events strategy, with an initial focus on Los Angeles and New York. You’ll work across major industry conferences, executive dinners, roundtables, workshops, and other high-touch activations. Success in this role means identifying the right opportunities, getting the right people in the room, building thought leadership and brand awareness, generating qualified leads and pipeline, and maximizing ROI from every event.

## Why This Is Exciting

You’ll help build OpenArt’s presence across the AI, advertising, media, entertainment, and creative industries. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to build new programs from the ground up and directly impact OpenArt’s brand, partnerships, and revenue growth.

## What You’ll Do

- Plan and execute major industry events, executive dinners, roundtables, workshops, and other strategic activations.
- Identify and evaluate events, sponsorships, partnerships, and other opportunities based on strategic value and potential ROI.
- Build targeted executive and attendee lists, and drive attendance through phone calls, email, LinkedIn, and direct outreach.
- Develop relationships with senior executives, brands, agencies, studios, partners, and industry leaders.
- Partner closely with sales, marketing, partnerships, and leadership teams to ensure events support broader business goals.
- Own event execution end to end, including planning, outreach, logistics, stakeholder coordination, follow-up, and measurement.
- Track event performance, lead generation, pipeline contribution, and overall ROI.
- Continuously identify new event formats, partnerships, and opportunities that can strengthen OpenArt’s market presence.

## Requirements

- Native-level English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Exceptional execution and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams with speed, accuracy, and strong follow-through.
- Strong ownership and initiative — able to proactively identify opportunities and problems, develop practical solutions, and drive them through execution.
- Strong communication skills and sales instincts, with confidence engaging senior executives, making direct calls, and proactively driving attendance and outcomes.
- Strategic and first-principles thinking — able to identify the core problem, challenge assumptions, and determine the most effective approach.
- Strong business sense and street smarts — resourceful, creative, and comfortable finding unconventional ways to make things happen.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment.
- Willingness to travel based on event needs.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in advertising, media, entertainment, film, AI, creative technology, or related industries.
- Experience running major industry events and/or high-touch executive events, with demonstrated business impact.
- Background in sales, business development, partnerships, field marketing, or experiential marketing.
- Strong network and relationships with brands, advertising agencies, studios, or senior leaders across advertising, media, and entertainment.
- Experience building new programs, event strategies, or initiatives from 0 to 1.

Work Setup

- U.S.-based.
- Preferably located in the Bay Area or Los Angeles.
- Travel required based on event needs.

## 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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