Creative Director, Art

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$287K/yr – $318K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end visual strategy for B2B campaigns, translating complex tech into human, enterprise-ready creative across multiple channels.

  • Lead visual concepting and creative direction
  • Collaborate across product marketing, sales, and design to evolve OpenAI’s business-focused visual language

Job Description

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 a range of audiences, including enterprise leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams adopting AI
  • Partner closely 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—sometimes hands-on, often 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 can 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 remaining connected to the broader brand
  • Maintain a high bar for visual craft, conceptual thinking, and creative ambition, even when working within complex business or technical subject matter

Requirements

  • Have 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
  • Bring a strong background in visual design and art direction across channels, including integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, product storytelling, events, and customer marketing
  • Have experience creating work for B2B, enterprise, developer, or other technically sophisticated audiences
  • Are a conceptual thinker who can develop big creative ideas and guide them from early strategy through execution
  • Know how to turn complex products, technical capabilities, and business challenges into visual stories that are clear, human, and memorable
  • Have experience leading integrated campaigns and large-scale brand initiatives across different stages of the customer journey
  • Can balance the need for enterprise credibility with the desire to create distinctive, culturally relevant work
  • Are comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities, multiple stakeholders, and complex creative challenges
  • Have exceptional design taste and a deep commitment to visual craft and storytelling
  • Are a strong cross-functional collaborator who works effectively with creative, product marketing, product, sales, communications, and production partners

Preferred

  • Experience working on enterprise technology, developer platforms, AI, or emerging products
  • Experience creating campaigns for audiences that span 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 AI, the future of work, and how organizations adopt transformative technologies
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.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.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
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Salaries

Posted range

$287K/yr – $318K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Creative median pay in the United States

$109K/yr

Most pay falls between $83K and $155K. Based on 2,555 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Corporate Round • $110B
  • Dec 2025
    Corporate Round • $1B
  • Oct 2025
    Secondary Market • $6.6B

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$2M
Traffic Source Mix
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52.5%
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37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

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Creative Director, Art

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