Motion Designer, Business Marketing

OpenAI’s Business Marketing team is hiring a Motion Designer to create hands-on motion assets and visual narratives for B2B marketing and communications. This hybrid role in San Francisco focuses on translating complex technical concepts into clear, brand-consistent motion for business and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce motion assets for B2B marketing and communications, including integrated campaigns, product launches, customer stories, films, events, social content, web experiences, and presentations.
• Translate complex technical concepts and product capabilities into clear, engaging motion for business leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and enterprise buyers.
• Develop visual narratives that connect OpenAI’s technology to customer needs, organizational change, and meaningful business outcomes.
• Collaborate with brand, product marketing, sales, communications, and other partners from initial concept through final delivery.
• Contribute to and apply OpenAI’s motion design principles and systems consistently across B2B channels and touchpoints.
• Create storyboards, motion studies, and prototypes to explore ideas and communicate creative direction.
• Execute high-quality animations with attention to detail across pacing, typography, and consistency.
• Adapt work for multiple audiences while maintaining brand standards and the integrity of the underlying technical story.
• Partner with producers and project managers to scope work, manage timelines, and meet deadlines.
• Participate in reviews and critiques, providing and incorporating clear, constructive feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Animation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in motion design, with a portfolio demonstrating strong brand, campaign, or B2B marketing work.
• Proficiency in industry-standard motion design and animation tools.
• Strong fundamentals in storytelling, timing, composition, typography, and visual systems.
• Experience translating complex products, technologies, or ideas into accessible and compelling creative work.
• Experience creating motion across B2B marketing and communications touchpoints.
• Ability to collaborate across creative and business disciplines and communicate design decisions clearly.
• Comfort working with evolving briefs, technical subject matter, and multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a high bar for quality.

Nice to Have

• Experience creating work for enterprise technology, AI, developer, or B2B audiences.
• Experience working on global brand, product marketing, or integrated B2B campaigns.
• Familiarity with motion systems or design systems for global brands.
• Experience partnering with product marketing, sales, product design, or engineering teams.
• Experience developing customer stories, event content, executive presentations, or sales-enablement creative.
• Exposure to emerging motion formats, including interactive, immersive, or real-time experiences.

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, plus multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year; 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.

Team and Role Context

Business Marketing helps organizations understand and put OpenAI’s products to work. The creative team brings that story to life across campaigns, launches, and everyday marketing experiences, working closely with marketing partners to produce ambitious, thoughtful work for business audiences.

In this hands-on role, motion design defines how OpenAI communicates with business and technical audiences across campaigns. You will collaborate with designers, writers, producers, product marketers, and cross-functional partners to deliver motion that connects OpenAI’s products and research to customer needs and business outcomes, while staying clear, thoughtful, and aligned with the OpenAI brand.

Location and Work Model

San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The hybrid model is 3 days in the office per week, with relocation assistance offered to new employees.

Compensation

USD 223,000 - 247,000 per year.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Animation, or a related field.