Designer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, United States

Salary: $176,000–$195,000 base salary annually, 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 broad human benefit.

What you will do

• Develop visual ideas for consumer campaigns and brand initiatives, exploring multiple directions aligned with creative briefs.
• Translate creative direction into polished designs across digital, social, presentation, and campaign formats, with strong typography and composition.
• Contribute to identity and campaign systems across layouts, imagery, and related assets.
• Collaborate with writers, art directors, motion designers, producers, marketers, and creative leads to connect words and visuals and prepare work for production.
• Use AI-enabled tools to explore concepts and generate variations, then select, refine, and integrate useful results using design judgment.
• Build reusable templates and assets, incorporate feedback, check work across formats, and communicate progress and constraints.

Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual ideas and execution across brand identity, campaigns, or related graphic design work.
• Strong command of typography, layout, composition, image-making, visual hierarchy, and production detail.
• Ability to contribute to concept development and independently execute defined deliverables with a creative lead.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or equivalent tools, including preparing files for collaborative design and production workflows.
• Practical curiosity about AI-assisted creative workflows and ability to critically assess generated work.
• Clear communication, openness to critique, and ability to manage multiple assignments as priorities and creative directions change.

Nice to have

• Experience with consumer or technology brands, motion, illustration, or creative coding.
• A portfolio clearly showing personal contribution and design process.

Culture & Benefits

• Creative work spans campaigns, launches, films, brand systems, and emerging formats.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, paid parental, medical, caregiver, sick, and safe leave, and paid time off.
• Paid company holidays, coordinated office closures, mental health and wellness support, and employer-paid life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend, daily office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, and relocation support for eligible employees.
• The role is full time and at-will; compensation may be adjusted based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.