OpenAI Art Director, Research Team at OpenAI partners with researchers to develop creative concepts and visual direction for research stories. Translates complex research into compelling visual storytelling across multiple media.
Responsibilities
OpenAI is seeking a hands-on Art Director to partner with the Research team on creative concepts, visual direction, and design. You’ll help define how research stories look and feel, developing ideas and carrying them into compelling visual work. Working directly with researchers, you’ll keep scientific accuracy and clarity central to the creative approach, while finding distinctive ways to capture people’s attention and imagination.
You’ll collaborate with filmmakers, designers, and marketing and creative partners across web, social, film, editorial, and experiences. Your work may range from developing a visual concept and art directing collaborators to designing assets yourself. You’ll create treatments, references, and explorations that establish a clear direction, then help carry that direction through production and final delivery.
This role suits a versatile art director with strong hands-on design craft, a distinct creative point of view, and an interest in AI research. You can move between the overall visual idea and the details of execution, build cohesive visual systems, and give collaborators clear, constructive feedback. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting your approach to an evolving research agenda.
Partner with researchers and creative teams to understand priorities, develop original concepts, and define the visual direction for research stories, announcements, and demos; communicate ideas through treatments, mood boards, references, and design explorations
Translate complex research concepts, methods, and findings into clear, compelling visual storytelling, choosing imagery, typography, composition, and motion that serve the idea and accurately represent the underlying work
Art direct and design across web, social, film, editorial, and experiences; guide the look and feel through collaboration with filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, and other creative partners, providing clear briefs and feedback while staying hands-on with execution
Create prototypes and reusable visual systems that carry a creative idea across formats; collaborate with researchers on narratives and demos, and explore visual approaches for film graphics, imagery, and environments that bring research capabilities to life
Carry visual direction from concept through delivery, reviewing work for craft, consistency, and clarity; manage multiple creative requests with partners, align on priorities, and adapt to changing research goals and production timelines
You might thrive in this role if you:
5+ years of experience in both art direction and graphic design, with a portfolio demonstrating original concepts, a strong visual point of view, and high-quality execution; clearly show your role in shaping the direction and making the work
Can establish a compelling visual direction and develop it into cohesive systems across formats, balancing consistency with the needs of each story and medium
Bring strong hands-on craft in typography, layout, composition, color, imagery, and information design, with an eye for how these elements work together in static and moving images
