About the team
The OpenAI Design Studio plays a central role in shaping and expressing OpenAI’s brand identity. We bridge product development, communications, and marketing—crafting cohesive storytelling and brand representation across every touchpoint. Our team is responsible for translating the complexity of advanced AI into accessible, impactful visual narratives that reflect our values of transparency, authenticity, and curiosity.
Communicating the progress and promise of AGI is some of the most important work at OpenAI—and we aim to do it with clarity, creativity, and integrity.
In this role, you will:
Lead the vision, direction, and execution of OpenAI’s presentation design function, crafting and overseeing decks for executive keynotes, product launches, and strategic initiatives.
Manage a small team of FTE and contract presentation designers, ensuring high-quality, on-brand visual storytelling across all work.
Provide creative direction and mentorship to designers, fostering a culture of excellence and encouraging craft development.
Partner closely with executive leadership, product, marketing, communications, and other cross-functional teams to distill complex ideas into compelling and accessible narratives.
Create and evolve a library of scalable, on-brand design systems and templates for presentations used across OpenAI.
Push the boundaries of storytelling through motion, animation, and interactive design elements in high-stakes presentations.
Ensure quality and consistency across all visual touchpoints while maintaining a fast-paced production workflow.
Help elevate the craft and standards of how OpenAI communicates through decks—both internally and externally.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Bring 8+ years of experience in visual or brand design with a strong emphasis on presentation design.
Have experience leading and mentoring design teams, providing clear feedback and creative guidance.
Are a systems thinker who understands how to scale quality and design excellence through repeatable tools and templates.
Possess a strong portfolio that includes high-impact presentations for product, executive, or brand storytelling.
Are highly familiar with designing for executive and event presentations, including live keynotes and large-scale launches.
Are proficient in Keynote, Google Slides, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite; motion design experience is a plus.
Are detail-oriented and thrive in environments where precision, timing, and clarity matter.
Enjoy working across disciplines—collaborating with creatives, researchers, marketers, and engineers to bring ideas to life.
Have a strong point of view on visual communication and presentation storytelling—but are flexible and open to iteration.
Are excited by OpenAI’s mission and motivated to contribute to the responsible and accessible communication of advanced AI.
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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