Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Motion design is increasingly central in SaaS, where product value is often communicated through launches, onboarding moments, and narrative-led marketing across many channels. This role sits at that intersection, translating complex, technical work into motion systems that can travel across web, social, film, and presentations—an important capability for modern SaaS brands, especially those shipping new concepts and features to broad audiences.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work builds durable strengths: creating repeatable motion patterns that support a brand system, collaborating tightly with cross-functional partners, and adapting assets to different surfaces without losing clarity. The emphasis on storyboarding, prototyping, and consistent execution maps well to SaaS environments where iteration, stakeholder alignment, and multi-format delivery are everyday realities.
This position tends to suit an experienced motion designer who prefers craft-heavy, hands-on production while also contributing to how a motion language is defined and applied. It will likely appeal to professionals who enjoy ambiguity in subject matter, can turn abstract ideas into understandable visuals, and are comfortable working closely with writers, designers, and marketing partners to land a coherent message.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI didn’t 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 surethe 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, it’s 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 doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories yet. This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.
About the Role
Motion design helps define how OpenAI communicates—across campaigns, launches, and ongoing storytelling. As a Motion Designer, you will create motion work that supports our marketing and communications efforts, helping people understand and connect with our products, research, and mission.
This is a hands-on role focused on craft and execution. You’ll work closely with designers, writers, producers, and marketing partners to deliver motion that is clear, thoughtful, and consistent with OpenAI’s brand.
To us, creativity is a team sport. Ideas get better when you talk them through and build on each other’s thinking. We value curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance craft with decisiveness.
In this role, you will
Design and produce motion assets for marketing and communications, including campaigns, product launches, films, social content, web, and presentations.
Translate complex ideas into clear, engaging motion that supports marketing goals and audience understanding.
Collaborate with brand, marketing, and communications partners throughout the creative process - from concept to final delivery.
Contribute to and apply OpenAI’s motion design principles and systems across channels.
Develop storyboards, motion studies, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideas.
Execute high-quality animations with strong attention to detail, pacing, and consistency.
Adapt work for multiple platforms and formats while maintaining brand standards.
Partner with producers and project managers to scope work, manage timelines, and deliver on deadlines.
Participate in reviews and critiques, providing and incorporating clear, constructive feedback.
You might thrive in this role if you
Bachelor’s degree in Design, Animation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
8+ years of experience in motion design, with a portfolio demonstrating strong brand and marketing work.
Proficiency in industry-standard motion design and animation tools.
Strong fundamentals in storytelling, timing, composition, typography, and visual systems.
Experience creating motion for marketing and communication touchpoints.
Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and communicate design decisions clearly.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a high bar for quality.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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