Creative Director, Growth

USA (Remote)

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

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the creative strategy for growth, guiding concepts across platforms, collaborating with Growth Marketing, and steering external agencies to deliver high-quality, scalable work.

  • Translate business objectives into clear creative direction
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams and partner with external agencies
  • Balance experimentation with brand integrity

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative direction across growth initiatives by establishing a high bar for storytelling, design, writing, relevance and quality across all outputs.
  • Translate business objectives, audience insights, and performance learnings into clear creative direction and breakthrough ideas.
  • Develop concepts and narratives that can scale globally while remaining relevant to local audiences and cultural contexts.
  • Partner closely with Growth Marketing to shape briefs, identify opportunities, and define creative approaches that balance experimentation with brand integrity.
  • Steer external agencies by setting direction, providing feedback, and ensuring work meets OpenAI's standards for craft, effectiveness, and originality.
  • Help evolve creative processes, frameworks, and systems that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality.
  • Identify patterns in testing, audience behavior, and campaign performance to inform future creative decisions and experimentation.
  • Collaborate closely with designers, writers, motion teams, producers, and strategists to bring integrated ideas to life.
  • Balance long-term thinking with rapid execution, knowing when a project calls for ambitious creative exploration and when it requires pragmatic decision-making.
  • Navigate ambiguity with confidence and act as a trusted creative partner to cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Have 10+ years of experience in creative roles, including experience leading multidisciplinary work across social, growth and/or integrated marketing.
  • Are a true creative generalist who can think strategically while maintaining strong instincts for execution and craft.
  • Bring demonstrated expertise in social-first creative, with a deep understanding of how ideas translate across platforms, audiences, and evolving behaviors. You know what makes work resonate in-feed and how to balance native platform instincts with brand objectives.
  • Have a portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative judgment and leadership across a variety of channels and formats.
  • Are comfortable using data, testing, and audience insights to sharpen creative thinking without becoming constrained by them.
  • Have experience working with and directing agencies, and know how to get the best out of external partners.
  • Thrive in fast-moving environments and don't see speed as a trade-off for quality.
  • Are energized by the opportunity to shape how transformative technology is understood and adopted around the world

Preferred

  • Experience working across both B2B and consumer audiences.
  • Experience building creative for global markets and navigating localization at scale.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled creative workflows and emerging creative tools.
  • Experience directing film, photography, creator, or production partners.
  • A passion for mentoring and developing creative talent
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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
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
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Salaries

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$287K/yr – $318K/yr

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Funding

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$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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