Creative Director, Art

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Creative Director, Art to lead B2B brand visual direction across integrated campaigns, product launches, customer storytelling, and industry moments. The role translates advanced technology capabilities into clear, compelling stories for business and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead visual concepting and creative direction for B2B campaigns, product launches, customer stories, and key industry initiatives
• Develop visual ideas that connect OpenAI’s products and technical capabilities to customer needs, and business outcomes
• Create work that resonates across 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 concepts
• Provide creative leadership from early strategy and concept through final execution across multiple channels and formats
• Guide visual direction for campaign photography, illustration, motion, film, digital experiences, events, and customer storytelling, sometimes hands-on and sometimes through 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 and product education to industry events and customer engagement
• Help evolve OpenAI’s visual language for business audiences in ways that are distinctive, scalable, and expressive while staying connected to the broader brand
• Maintain a high bar for visual craft, conceptual thinking, and creative ambition within complex business and technical subject matter
• Lead multiple creative initiatives simultaneously with clarity, strong judgment, and creative conviction

Requirements

• 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, with experience in both strongly preferred
• Strong background in visual design and art direction across channels, including integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, product storytelling, events, and customer marketing
• Experience creating work for B2B, enterprise, developer, or other technically sophisticated audiences
• Conceptual thinking to develop large creative ideas and guide them from early strategy through execution
• Ability to translate complex products, technical capabilities, and business challenges into visual stories that are clear, human, and memorable
• Experience leading integrated campaigns and large-scale brand initiatives across stages of the customer journey
• Capacity to balance enterprise credibility with distinctive, culturally relevant work
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities, multiple stakeholders, and complex creative challenges
• Exceptional design taste with a deep 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 creative vendors
• Ability to balance creative ambition with clarity, precision, and strategic thinking

Technologies

• Figma
• Google Slides

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, multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year, and 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
• Daily meals in 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

Additional Information

Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite)

Compensation: USD 287,000 - 318,000 per yearly

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Nice to Have

• Experience working on enterprise technologies, AI, or emerging products
• Experience creating campaigns for audiences spanning executive buyers, technical decision-makers, developers, and end users
• Motion design or film art direction experience
• Experience leading visual storytelling for technical product launches, customer stories, or industry events
• Experience developing modular creative systems that can scale across regions, industries, channels, and customer segments
• Comfort giving creative direction in Figma, Google Slides, and production environments, including shoots and post-production
• Curiosity about AIative technologies