Head of Creative – Visual AI, Strategic Partner Launches

Role Overview

• Set and own the creative vision for marketing OpenAI’s visual AI models across product storytelling, launches, campaigns, content and experiential/digital moments.
• Define “what great looks like” for AI-native storytelling across formats—including video, motion, interactive and emerging mediums.
• Translate product capabilities and research breakthroughs into creative frameworks, narratives and breakthrough concepts that are accessible, human, and culturally resonant.
• Lead work from early creative strategy through execution, ensuring ideas remain strong as constraints, inputs, and timelines evolve.
• Establish and maintain a high bar for craft, concept, storytelling, and coherence across all creative outputs.
• Develop strong relationships with Product and Research to turn technical possibility into creative possibility—helping shape demos, showcases and proof-of-concept examples that set the tone for the ecosystem.
• Lead the visual creative strategy and storytelling for strategic partner launches, translating joint value into clear, inspiring narratives across partner and OpenAI channels.
• Design and direct partner-facing showcases and flagship examples (demo films, creator collaborations, interactive experiences) that credibly demonstrate capability and creative potential.
• Partner with Product Design to bring a narrative and brand perspective into user-facing experiences when appropriate, ensuring cohesion between product expression and marketing storytelling.
• Shape how OpenAI’s visual models show up in the world through distinctive creative systems (visual language, motion principles, editorial style, scalable formats and tool-informed workflows).
• Create a culture of learning-by-making, including regular demos and show-and-tells that help the team build confidence using AI tools without losing craft, originality or authorship.
• Balance big-picture thinking with hands-on creative involvement, knowing when to direct and when to dive in.
• Navigate ambiguity, competing inputs, and high-stakes environments with clarity and composure.
• Act as a trusted creative partner to cross-functional and executive stakeholders, aligning creative work to company priorities.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years of creative leadership experience, with a distinctive portfolio that demonstrates high craft, conceptual clarity and impact across mediums.
• Have experience setting creative vision — not just executing against briefs — for complex, high-visibility initiatives.
• Bring strong narrative and conceptual skills, with the ability to translate abstract or technical ideas into human-centered stories.
• Are fluent across multiple creative channels, including brand campaigns, digital, content, experiential, and storytelling.
• Are equally comfortable setting direction and getting hands-on when needed.
• Have a refined creative point of view and can articulate it clearly to teams and stakeholders.
• Are a collaborative, empathetic leader who elevates teams through clarity, trust, and thoughtful feedback.
• Are excited to lead creative teams through new tools and new mediums as someone who can translate capability into creative possibility.
• Balance creativity with rigor, strategic thinking, and a strong sense of brand responsibility.
• Are energized by the role of creativity in shaping how transformative technology meets the world.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.