Events Design Producer

Location: Hybrid; must be in San Francisco 3 days a week. Travel is required for major company events, site visits, installations, and production weeks. Extended hours are expected around key event milestones, installations, and live dates.

Salary: $240,000–$266,000 base pay annually, plus equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence products.

What you will do

• Lead design production for company events ranging from intimate gatherings to large-scale global experiences.
• Oversee event environments, stages, signage, wayfinding, scenic elements, activations, and branded guest experiences from design development through fabrication, installation, live execution, and strike.
• Establish roles, workflows, workback schedules, budgets, quality standards, milestones, approvals, dependencies, fabrication schedules, installation plans, risks, and production documentation.
• Coordinate creative teams, event leads, agencies, designers, fabricators, technical partners, vendors, and other cross-functional stakeholders across concurrent projects.
• Translate event goals, audience journeys, and program narratives into design briefs and deliverables; synthesize feedback into clear direction.
• Lead design reviews, technical handoffs, site walks, production check-ins, onsite quality control, and process improvements while maintaining executional rigor under shifting priorities and compressed timelines.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience producing event design, experiential design, environmental design, or branded experiences, ideally within technology or a fast-moving global organization.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of designers, creative producers, agencies, fabricators, technical partners, and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple complex event design and production workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong creative-production leadership skills, including clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and team support under tight timelines.
• Experience managing creative workstreams from early concept and design development through fabrication, installation, live execution, and strike.
• Strong visual judgment and experiential storytelling instincts, with exceptional attention to detail across spatial design, brand expression, materials, and guest experience.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, synthesize diverse opinions, establish priorities and decision paths, and guide senior stakeholders through rapid creative review and approval cycles.
• Strong budget, resource-planning, vendor-management, and project-management skills, including anticipating risks and resolving competing demands.
• Composure, decisiveness, and reliability under tight deadlines, onsite installation demands, and live-event pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular collaboration alongside internal teams in San Francisco.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts; Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts.
• 401(k) plan with employer match, paid parental and medical/caregiver leave, paid time off, paid holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support, employer-paid basic life and disability coverage, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, relocation support for eligible employees, charitable donation matching, and wellness stipends.
• Work includes high-visibility brand moments, major events, site visits, installations, production weeks, and collaboration with audiences around the world.

Hiring process

• More detailed benefits information is provided during the hiring process.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.