Motion Designer, Business Marketing

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI’s Business Marketing team is seeking a senior Motion Designer to craft motion work that makes complex AI technology understandable and compelling for business and technical audiences. You will work hands-on to deliver assets across campaigns, launches, customer stories, events, and brand experiences with a focus on craft and execution.

The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model (3 days in the office per week) and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in motion design with a portfolio demonstrating brand, campaigns or B2B work.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong fundamentals in storytelling, timing, composition, typography, and visual systems.
• Experience translating complex products or ideas into clear motion for business audiences.
• Experience creating motion across B2B marketing touchpoints.
• Ability to collaborate across creative and business disciplines and communicate design decisions clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce motion assets for B2B marketing, product launches, events, and campaigns.
• Translate technical concepts into clear, engaging motion for enterprise audiences.
• Develop visual narratives linking OpenAI’s technology to customer needs and outcomes.
• Collaborate with brand, product marketing, sales, and communications throughout the creative process.
• Apply OpenAI motion design principles and systems across channels.
• Create storyboards, motion studies, and prototypes to communicate direction.
• Execute high-quality animations with strong attention to detail and pacing.
• Adapt work for multiple audiences and formats while maintaining brand standards.
• Partner with producers to scope work, manage timelines, and meet deadlines.
• Participate in reviews and incorporate feedback.

Skills

Motion design

Brand & B2B marketing

Storytelling fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Communication of complex tech

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

After Effects

Cinema 4D

Premiere Pro

Job description

About the Team

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.

About the Role

Motion design helps define how OpenAI communicates with business and technical audiences—across campaigns, product launches, customer storytelling, events, and ongoing brand experiences. As a Motion Designer on the B2B creative team, you will create motion work that makes complex technology understandable, compelling, and relevant to organizations exploring how AI can transform their work.

This is a hands‑on role focused on craft and execution. You’ll work closely with designers, writers, producers, product marketers, and cross‑functional partners to deliver motion that connects OpenAI’s products and research to customer needs and business outcomes while remaining clear, thoughtful, and consistent with the OpenAI brand.

To us, creativity is a team sport. Ideas get better when you talk them through and build on each other’s thinking. We value curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance craft with decisiveness.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will

• Design and produce motion assets for B2B marketing and communications, including integrated campaigns, product launches, customer stories, films, events, social content, web experiences, and presentations.
• Translate complex technical concepts and product capabilities into clear, engaging motion for business leaders, technical decision‑makers, developers, and enterprise buyers.
• Develop visual narratives that connect OpenAI’s technology to customer needs, organizational change, and meaningful business outcomes.
• Collaborate with brand, product marketing, sales, communications, and other partners throughout the creative process—from initial concept through final delivery.
• Contribute to and apply OpenAI’s motion design principles and systems consistently across B2B channels and touchpoints.
• Develop storyboards, motion studies, and prototypes to explore ideas and communicate creative direction.
• Execute high‑quality animations with strong attention to detail, pacing, typography, and consistency.
• Adapt work for multiple audiences, platforms, and formats while maintaining brand standards and the integrity of the underlying technical story.
• Partner with producers and project managers to scope work, manage timelines, and deliver on deadlines.
• Participate in reviews and critiques, providing and incorporating clear, constructive feedback.

You might thrive in this role if you have

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Animation, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience in motion design, with a portfolio demonstrating strong brand, campaign, or B2B marketing work.
• Proficiency in industry‑standard motion design and animation tools.
• Strong fundamentals in storytelling, timing, composition, typography, and visual systems.
• Experience translating complex products, technologies, or ideas into accessible and compelling creative work.
• Experience creating motion across B2B marketing and communications touchpoints.
• Ability to collaborate across creative and business disciplines and communicate design decisions clearly.
• Comfort working with evolving briefs, technical subject matter, and multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, evolving environment with a high bar for quality.

Nice to have

• Experience creating work for enterprise technology, AI, developer, or B2B audiences.
• Experience working on global brand, product marketing, or integrated B2B campaigns.
• Familiarity with motion systems or design systems for global brands.
• Experience partnering with product marketing, sales, product design, or engineering teams.
• Experience developing customer stories, event content, executive presentations, or sales‑enablement creative.
• Exposure to emerging motion formats, including interactive, immersive, or real‑time experiences.

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.

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