Creative Director, Copy

OpenAI didnt begin as a traditional company. It began as an idea: that artificial intelligence could be developed in a way that benefits everyone. As a creative team our role is to help make sure the work behind that idea is understood as it leaves the lab and meets the world.

This company works at the frontier of intelligence. Like any frontier its unfinished constantly shifting and still being explored. Our job is to stay close to that uncertainty and help shape how this story gets told in a way that feels grounded and human. We do this through campaigns launches films brand systems and work that doesnt fit neatly into any of those categories yet. This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.

Were looking for an experienced Creative Director Copy to join our growing in-house creative team focused on OpenAIs business this role youll help define how we communicate the value of OpenAI to organizations - from growing businesses and startups to global enterprises and developers building with our technology.

Youll concept and write across integrated campaigns product launches customer stories events and other brand moments. Youll translate complex products technical capabilities and business outcomes into clear compelling ideas that resonate with decision-makers builders and teams adopting AI.

This is a deeply hands-on role for someone who is equally comfortable developing a big campaign platform shaping a messaging framework writing a film script or refining a headline. Youll work closely with design production product marketing and communications from the earliest stages of an idea through execution.

To us creativity is a team sport. Ideas get better when you talk them through and build on each others thinking. We value curiosity over certainty kindness over ego and the ability to balance creative ambition with clarity and decisiveness.

This role is based in New York NY. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

• Concept and write integrated brand campaigns for OpenAIs 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 OpenAIs 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 OpenAIs voice and tone across business communications

• Present creative ideas and explain the thinking behind them to cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders

• Move fluidly between high-level concepts and detailed execution staying close to the work throughout the process

• Manage multiple complex projects evolving inputs and compressed timelines with clarity and confidence

• Help challenge conventions about what enterprise and technology marketing can look and sound like

• 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 briefor help shape the brief when one doesnt 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

• Operate autonomously and take strong ownership of your work from concept through execution

• Balance creativity with the clarity credibility and precision required for business audiences

• Are comfortable working across multiple projects and adapting quickly as priorities and inputs evolve

• 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-enablement 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

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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