Creative Resource Lead (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid work model with three days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

Salary: $266,000–$295,000 base pay, plus equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence with a focus on safety and human benefit.

What you will do

• Own creative resource planning and allocation across internal teams, contractors, freelancers, specialists, and agencies.
• Track team availability, capabilities, assignments, workload, and upcoming demand across design, copy, motion, video, and web.
• Build capacity forecasts, staffing scenarios, reporting, and decision-making rhythms for ongoing programs and fast-moving launches.
• Partner with Strategy & Operations, creative leads, producers, marketers, and external partners to assess work and recommend staffing plans.
• Manage contractor and agency assignments, resourcing budgets, rates, agency fee models, commitments, risks, and talent-mix adjustments.
• Build AI-enabled tools and workflows for forecasting, talent matching, allocation, and resource coordination, while resolving conflicts and capability gaps.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience personally owning creative resource management, workforce planning, or talent allocation across multiple disciplines and concurrent programs.
• Strong understanding of design, copy, motion, video, and web production, including the skills, roles, and collaboration required for different creative work.
• Experience building and running trusted capacity-planning, forecasting, and resource-allocation systems.
• Strong judgment in matching people to work while balancing individual strengths, development opportunities, business priorities, timelines, and team capacity.
• Experience developing and managing a flexible talent ecosystem involving internal teams, contractors, freelancers, specialists, and agencies.
• Judgment about when work should be handled in-house, externally, or through self-service, balancing speed, cost, sustainability, and creative quality.
• Experience managing creative resourcing budgets, contractor rates, agency fee models, and related commercial tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience using AI or automation to improve resource planning, forecasting, coordination, or creative capacity, with an understanding of where human judgment remains essential.
• Ability to build trust and communicate staffing decisions and tradeoffs clearly with creative leaders, individual contributors, producers, marketers, and external partners; high ownership, discretion, composure, and flexibility in ambiguous environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with three office days per week in San Francisco.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• 401(k) plan with employer match, paid parental and medical leave, flexible paid time off for exempt employees, and paid holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support, life and disability coverage, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, commuter benefits, relocation support, charitable donation matching, and wellness stipends.

Hiring process

• Additional benefits details are provided during the hiring process.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.