Art Director
Creative - New York City
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 Opportunity
We're looking for a hands-on Art Director to help develop and make work across campaigns, research launches, and social. In the near term, you'll focus on supporting research-related creative projects and launches, with opportunities to contribute more broadly.
You're a visual thinker and a maker: someone who can find a strong visual idea, build a quick prototype, and carry it through to execution. You bring craft, curiosity, and resourcefulness, and enjoy creating content across mediums with a small team, a short timeline, or an evolving brief.
You'll bring art direction and visual storytelling to projects that turn complex technology into ideas people connect with. Working closely with creative leads, copywriters, designers, and other creative partners, you'll develop the visual approach and bring a distinctive point of view from concept through execution.
This role is based in New York City and works across campaign and social, in close collaboration with OpenAI's Creative, Marketing, Product, and Communications teams.
In this role, you will:
Develop and make visual ideas across campaigns and social, from the first concept through launch, supporting priorities across the creative team
Own hands-on art direction and design for assigned projects, partnering with copywriters and other creatives to bring clear, distinctive stories to life
Prototype quickly through visual concepts, mockups, storyboards, rough edits, and other working examples that help the team test and develop ideas
Create visual work across formats video, social posts, digital experiences, and campaign assets, adapting ideas to the medium and audience
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, creators, and production partners, staying close to execution and using feedback to improve the work
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 8+ years of relevant experience
Bring a strong portfolio of campaign and social work that shows original thinking, distinctive art direction, and what you personally made, from early experiments to finished work
Have strong craft in art direction and designs
Are a resourceful maker who can prototype, create, and iterate independently within an established creative direction, using the tools that best bring an idea to life
Enjoy working quickly with lean teams and evolving briefs, balancing strong craft with the judgment to know when to test, refine, or ship
Enjoy partnering closely with copywriters, designers, and other creatives, welcome feedback, and collaborate generously with creative and cross-functional teams
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 the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$223K – $247K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
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, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.