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Events Design Producer

OpenAI· Marketing
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$240k - $266kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Experienced Events Design Producer leading design production for high-profile OpenAI events and experiences, overseeing multiple workstreams from concept to onsite delivery in a hybrid San Francisco role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design production across company events, from intimate gatherings to large-scale global experiences
  • Oversee the design development and execution of event environments, stages, signage, wayfinding, scenic elements, activations, and branded guest experiences
  • Establish clear roles, workflows, workback schedules, budgets, and quality standards across event design workstreams
  • Assess incoming event design needs and coordinate creative resources, agencies, fabricators, and vendors based on scope, timing, and complexity
  • Provide hands-on production leadership to keep complex or high-priority event design projects moving from concept through onsite delivery
  • Partner closely with event leads and creative teams to translate event goals, audience journeys, and program narratives into clear design briefs and deliverables
  • Guide designers and external partners in developing cohesive spatial, environmental, scenic, digital, and print design systems that align with brand standards
  • Synthesize and prioritize input from multiple stakeholders, turning feedback into clear, actionable direction for designers, agencies, fabricators, and vendors
  • Maintain visibility across design milestones, budgets, approvals, dependencies, fabrication schedules, installation plans, risks, and onsite production documentation
  • Ensure tight alignment across event identity, environment, stage, signage, digital surfaces, printed materials, and the end-to-end audience experience
  • Lead design reviews, technical handoffs, site walks, production check-ins, and onsite quality control through installation and live execution
  • Drive design-production decisions in a fast-paced environment with shifting directives, compressed timelines, and competing priorities
  • Identify opportunities to improve event design production processes, briefs, templates, vendor workflows, and ways of working
  • Maintain calm, clarity, and executional rigor during high-pressure moments leading up to and during event installation and live execution
  • Partner with creative and events leads to continually reprioritize projects and creative resourcing as urgent needs arise
  • Develop integrated workback schedules for multiple cross-functional teams across several concurrent global events; communicate deadlines proactively and consistently, and anticipate and address blockers as they arise

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience producing event design, experiential design, environmental design, or branded experiences, ideally within technology or a fast-moving global organization
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of designers, creative producers, agencies, fabricators, technical partners, and vendors
  • Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple complex event design and production workstreams simultaneously
  • Strong creative-production leadership skills, with the ability to provide clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and support to teams working under tight timelines
  • Experience managing creative workstreams from early concept and design development through fabrication, installation, live execution, and strike
  • Strong visual judgment and experiential storytelling instincts, with exceptional attention to detail across spatial design, brand expression, materials, and guest experience
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, synthesize diverse opinions, and establish clear priorities and decision paths
  • Confidence working directly with senior leaders and guiding stakeholders through rapid creative review and approval cycles
  • Strong budget, resource-planning, vendor-management, and project-management skills, including the ability to anticipate risks and resolve competing demands
  • Composure, decisiveness, and reliability under tight deadlines, onsite installation demands, and live-event pressure

Skills

Required:Event design production leadershipBudget and resource planningVendor and agency managementCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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