Events Designer, Business Marketing

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. Business Marketing helps organizations understand and put OpenAI’s products to work. Our creative team brings that story to life across campaigns, launches, and everyday marketing experiences. We work closely with marketing partners to make ambitious, thoughtful creative work that connects with business audiences. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced Events Designer to create memorable visual experiences across OpenAI events, live streams, and global product announcements. You’ll develop cohesive visual identities and translate them across keynote presentations, large-format screens, streaming graphics, event environments, and merchandise. Working closely with brand, marketing, events, motion, and production teams, you’ll bring strong creative thinking and hands-on design craft to every experience. In this role, you will Design event experiences from concept to execution, including signage, wayfinding, wall graphics, apparel, merchandise, and other onsite brand applications. Build cohesive visual systems that extend across physical environments, keynote presentations, large-format screens, and digital event touchpoints. Create broadcast and livestream graphics, including overlays, lower thirds, titles, countdowns, and other motion-ready assets. Storyboard and art-direct motion work in partnership with internal motion designers and external creative partners, ensuring consistency across formats. Collaborate with producers, motion designers, video teams, artists, event planners, marketing, and product partners to translate event objectives into distinctive creative work. Maintain and evolve OpenAI’s brand system in event contexts, creating reusable templates, documenting design decisions, and supporting the scalable execution of global events. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience translating a creative concept into production-ready graphics for events, live broadcasts, or large-scale brand experiences. A strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful, high-quality brand and experiential design across physical and digital surfaces. Fluency with design tools and processes for visual identity, presentations, environmental graphics, and digital or motion design. Excellent visual craft and attention to detail, including typography, composition, brand consistency, and production specifications. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain design decisions and partner with cross-functional teams and vendors. Ability to manage overlapping projects and design timelines, adapt to ambiguity, and deliver excellent work under event deadlines. Experience with livestream graphics, motion direction, large-format print production, or experiential design is a plus. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in