Senior Designer, Creative Studio

About The Team

OpenAI didn’t begin as a traditional company. It began as an idea: that artificial intelligence could be developed in a way that benefits everyone. As a creative team, our role is to help make sure the work behind that idea is understood, as it leaves the lab and meets the world.

This company works at the frontier of intelligence. Like any frontier, it’s unfinished, constantly shifting, and still being explored. Our job is to stay close to that uncertainty and help shape how this story gets told, in a way that feels grounded and human. We do this through campaigns, launches, films, brand systems, and work that doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories yet. This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Designer to work within our growing in-house creative team. This role will help showcase how our products are visualized and communicated across digital experiences and real-world touchpoints. This is a senior, hands-on role for a designer with strong product instincts and exceptional visual craft.

In this role, you’ll help bring to life the voice of OpenAI at a moment when the story is still being written, through new product launches. This role sits in close collaboration with agency partners. Merging the objectives and cultures of two dynamic studios is a key component of this role.

To us, creativity is a team sport. Ideas get better when you talk them through and build on each other’s thinking. We value curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance craft with decisiveness.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In This Role, You Will

• Embed deeply with design teams at our agency partner and OpenAI, and bridge the two distinct creative cultures.

• Develop and foster partnerships with design, motion, production, and agency teams to bring ideas to life.

• Collaborate with Product, Comms, and Marketing to ensure narrative consistency and impact.

• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously with clarity and confidence.

• Maintain a high bar for craft across typography, layout, composition, and image-making.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure work is accurate, cohesive, and aligned to product strategy.

• Manage projects end-to-end, including hands-on design and guiding external partners when needed.

You Might Thrive in this Role if You

• Have 10+ years of experience managing design for brands, gained at a creative agency known for excellence in craft and close collaboration with design teams, a company known for frontier design excellence and lasting cultural impact, or in-house at a modern technology company with a compelling mix of products.

• Are a visionary designer with experience supporting design directions that elevate and position iconic brand designs in emotional ways.

• Have a portfolio showing exceptional product visualization and polished design execution across channels.

• Are highly hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in fast-moving, high-visibility environments.

• Bring strong judgment, a clear point of view, and a collaborative working style.

• Experience with 3D workflows and rendering.

• Have familiarity with AI-enabled creative workflows.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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