Art Director, Research Team

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 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, 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 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. In this role, you will: 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, compe…