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Creative Director, Copy

OpenAI· Marketing
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Hybrid (New York City)$223k - $318kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

OpenAI seeks an experienced Creative Director, Copy for the in-house creative team focused on OpenAI’s business audiences. The role involves concepting and writing integrated campaigns, translating complex products into clear, compelling stories, and shaping OpenAI’s voice for business audiences across campaigns, launches, customer stories, events, and other brand moments.

Responsibilities

  • Concept and write integrated brand campaigns for OpenAI’s business audiences
  • Translate complex products, technical capabilities, and use cases into clear, human, and emotionally resonant stories
  • Develop campaign platforms, messaging frameworks, headlines, scripts, manifestos, and narrative systems
  • Create work that connects OpenAI’s products to meaningful business challenges and outcomes
  • Shape how OpenAI speaks to business leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams adopting AI
  • Write across customer stories, product launches, films, digital experiences, events, social content, and executive communications
  • Partner closely with design, motion, production, brand strategy, and agency teams to bring ideas to life
  • Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, Product, Communications, and other partners to understand audiences and business priorities
  • Build flexible messaging systems that can work across industries, audiences, markets, and channels
  • Evolve and steward OpenAI’s voice and tone across business communications
  • Present creative ideas and explain the thinking behind them to cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders
  • Move fluidly between high-level concepts and detailed execution, staying close to the work throughout the process
  • Manage multiple complex projects, evolving inputs, and compressed timelines with clarity and confidence
  • Help challenge conventions about what enterprise and technology marketing can look and sound like

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience writing for brands, gained at a creative agency known for creative excellence and/or in-house at a modern technology company, with experience in both strongly preferred
  • Exceptional writer and conceptual thinker with a portfolio of distinctive, integrated creative work
  • Experience writing for B2B, enterprise, developer, or other technically sophisticated audiences
  • Ability to make complex products and technical concepts understandable without flattening their meaning
  • Understanding of how to connect product capabilities to customer needs, organizational change, and meaningful business outcomes
  • Ability to move between campaign concepts, messaging strategy, scripts, headlines, long-form narratives, and detailed copy
  • Deep fluency in voice, tone, rhythm, structure, and storytelling
  • Ability to find a compelling creative idea in an ambiguous brief or shape the brief when one doesn’t yet exist
  • Enjoy building ideas collaboratively with designers, strategists, producers, and cross-functional partners
  • Ability to advocate for ambitious creative work while responding constructively to strategic, technical, and commercial constraints
  • Autonomy and strong ownership of work from concept through execution
  • Capability to balance creativity with clarity, credibility, and precision for business audiences
  • Comfort working across multiple projects with evolving priorities

Skills

Required:Writing for brands and campaignsStorytelling and messagingCollaboration with cross-functional teamsCampaign concepting

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 offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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