Creative Director, Growth Creative Team

We're looking for an experienced Creative Director to join our Growth creative team and drive creative excellence across OpenAI's global growth efforts.

This is a generalist creative role for someone who is equally comfortable shaping strategy, developing concepts, directing agencies, and refining execution. You'll work across B2B and B2C initiatives spanning paid media, social, lifecycle, launches, and emerging opportunities—translating business goals and audience insights into work that is distinctive, effective, and culturally relevant.

You'll partner closely with Growth Marketing, Brand, Product Marketing, Production, and external agencies to raise the quality of our creative output while maintaining the speed and agility required of a high-performing growth organization.

The ideal candidate is a multidisciplinary creative thinker who can move seamlessly between big-picture vision and hands-on problem solving. You understand how to build systems without sacrificing originality, use data without losing intuition, and guide teams toward stronger work through clarity, taste, and collaboration.

This role is based in New York with periodic travel to other OpenAI offices.

In this role, you will:

• Lead creative direction across growth initiatives by establishing a high bar for storytelling, design, writing, relevance, and quality across all outputs.
• Translate business objectives, audience insights, and performance learnings into clear creative direction and breakthrough ideas.
• Develop concepts and narratives that can scale globally while remaining relevant to local audiences and cultural contexts.
• Partner closely with Growth Marketing to shape briefs, identify opportunities, and define creative approaches that balance experimentation with brand integrity.
• Steer external agencies by setting direction, providing feedback, and ensuring work meets OpenAI's standards for craft, effectiveness, and originality.
• Help evolve creative processes, frameworks, and systems that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality.
• Identify patterns in testing, audience behavior, and campaign performance to inform future creative decisions and experimentation.
• Collaborate closely with designers, writers, motion teams, producers, and strategists to bring integrated ideas to life.
• Balance long-term thinking with rapid execution, knowing when a project calls for ambitious creative exploration and when it requires pragmatic decision-making.
• Navigate ambiguity with confidence and act as a trusted creative partner to cross-functional stakeholders.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in creative roles, including experience leading multidisciplinary work across social, growth, and/or integrated marketing.
• Are a true creative generalist who can think strategically while maintaining strong instincts for execution and craft.
• Bring demonstrated expertise in social-first creative, with a deep understanding of how ideas translate across platforms, audiences, and evolving behaviors. You know what makes work resonate in-feed and how to balance native platform instincts with brand objectives.
• Have a portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative judgment and leadership across a variety of channels and formats.
• Are comfortable using data, testing, and audience insights to sharpen creative thinking without becoming constrained by them.
• Have experience working with and directing agencies, and know how to get the best out of external partners.
• Thrive in fast-moving environments and don't see speed as a trade-off for quality.
• Are energized by the opportunity to shape how transformative technology is understood and adopted around the world.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working across both B2B and consumer audiences.
• Experience building creative for global markets and navigating localization at scale.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled creative workflows and emerging creative tools.
• Experience directing film, photography, creator, or production partners.
• A passion for mentoring and developing creative talent.