Creative Director, Copy

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$287K/yr – $318K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve OpenAI’s enterprise storytelling and messaging across campaigns, products, and executive communications.

  • Lead integrated campaigns for business audiences
  • Translate complex tech into human narratives and clear messaging frameworks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale voice across industries

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept and write integrated brand campaigns for OpenAI’s business audiences
  • Translate complex products, technical capabilities, and use cases into clear, human, and emotionally resonant stories
  • Develop campaign platforms, messaging frameworks, headlines, scripts, manifestos, and narrative systems
  • Create work that connects OpenAI’s products to meaningful business challenges and outcomes
  • Shape how OpenAI speaks to business leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and teams adopting AI
  • Write across customer stories, product launches, films, digital experiences, events, social content, and executive communications
  • Partner closely with design, motion, production, brand strategy, and agency teams to bring ideas to life
  • Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, Product, Communications, and other partners to understand audiences and business priorities
  • Build flexible messaging systems that can work across industries, audiences, markets, and channels
  • Evolve and steward OpenAI’s voice and tone across business communications

Requirements

  • Have 10+ years of experience writing for brands, gained at a creative agency known for creative excellence and/or in-house at a modern technology company, with experience in both strongly preferred
  • Are an exceptional writer and conceptual thinker with a portfolio of distinctive, integrated creative work
  • Have experience writing for B2B, enterprise, developer, or other technically sophisticated audiences
  • Can make complex products and technical concepts understandable without flattening their meaning
  • Understand how to connect product capabilities to customer needs, organizational change, and meaningful business outcomes
  • Can move comfortably between campaign concepts, messaging strategy, scripts, headlines, long-form narratives, and detailed copy
  • Have deep fluency in voice, tone, rhythm, structure, and storytelling
  • Can find a compelling creative idea in an ambiguous brief—or help shape the brief when one doesn’t yet exist
  • Enjoy building ideas collaboratively with designers, strategists, producers, and cross-functional partners
  • Can advocate for ambitious creative work while responding constructively to strategic, technical, and commercial constraints

Preferred

  • Experience working with enterprise technology, developer platforms, SaaS products, or emerging categories
  • Experience writing customer stories that connect individual experiences with broader organizational impact
  • Familiarity with the needs of enterprise buyers, technical evaluators, developers, and business leaders
  • Experience with executive storytelling, major industry events, or sales-enabling narratives
  • Background in editorial, long-form storytelling, filmmaking, or documentary work
  • Familiarity with integrated campaign development and scalable brand systems
  • Curiosity about AI, the future of work, and how technology changes the way organizations operate and create
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OpenAI

4.4 Glassdoor

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
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$287K/yr – $318K/yr

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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

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.9K

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