Events Designer, Business Marketing
OpenAI
Summary
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.
Job description
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health savings accounts
- Health FSA
- Dependent care FSA
- Commuter expenses
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Paid time off
- Paid company holidays
- Paid sick time
- Mental health support
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching
- Wellness stipends
Company overview
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory and company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, OpenAI initially operated as a non-profit research organization before transitioning to a capped-profit model. The company's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI has developed groundbreaking AI technologies including GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models, DALL-E for image generation, and Codex for programming assistance. Their most notable product, ChatGPT, has revolutionized human-AI interaction and brought large language models to mainstream audiences. OpenAI conducts cutting-edge research in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and reinforcement learning, while also developing practical AI applications that are transforming industries worldwide.