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Creative Director, Art

OpenAI· Marketing
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San Francisco$287k - $318k + equityFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Creative Director, Art to lead visual direction for OpenAI’s business-to-business audience, shaping integrated campaigns, product launches, customer storytelling, and industry moments with a focus on translating complex AI capabilities into clear, human-centered visual narratives.

Responsibilities

  • 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 audiences including enterprise leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams adopting AI
  • Partner 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—hands-on or via 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 extend across the B2B customer journey from awareness to engagement
  • Evolve OpenAI’s visual language for business audiences to be distinctive, scalable, and expressive while aligned with the broader brand
  • Maintain a high bar for visual craft, conceptual thinking, and creative ambition in complex subject matter
  • Lead multiple creative initiatives simultaneously with clarity, judgment, and creative conviction

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Strong background in visual design and art direction across channels (integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, product storytelling, events, customer marketing)
  • Experience creating work for B2B, enterprise, developer, or technically sophisticated audiences
  • Conceptual thinker who can develop big ideas from strategy through execution
  • Ability to turn complex products and business challenges into clear, human visual stories
  • Experience leading integrated campaigns and large-scale brand initiatives across the customer journey
  • Capacity to balance enterprise credibility with distinctive, culturally relevant work
  • Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities and stakeholders
  • Exceptional design taste and commitment to visual craft and storytelling
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration with creative, product marketing, product, sales, communications, and production partners
  • Experience guiding work through internal teams, agencies, and external vendors
  • Ability to balance creative ambition with clarity, precision, and strategic thinking

Skills

Required:Art directionCreative leadershipVisual storytelling

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter benefits
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (birth parents up to 24 weeks, non-birth parents up to 20 weeks) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off including flexible PTO and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked or as required)
  • 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
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
  • Details available during hiring process
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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