Senior Designer, Research & Experimental Visuals

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Remoto; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Designer to lead hands-on design for research and experimental creative work.

You will help define visual direction, build prototypes, and carry ideas through to finished work across research communications, demos, and experiences. This role blends strong craft with experimental making, collaborating with researchers, creative leads, and production partners to turn complex scientific concepts into accessible visuals, scalable graphic systems, and clear storytelling

Competenze

• 8+ years of relevant design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating senior-level design judgement and ability to make complex ideas understandable.
• Experience shaping visual direction and delivering projects from early exploration through final production with hands-on contribution.
• Strong graphic design fundamentals and ability to create flexible visual systems across digital or physical media.
• Experimental practice including prototyping, testing approaches, and learning new tools as needed.
• Curiosity to understand unfamiliar research and preserve technical meaning.
• Ability to guide collaborators, explain design decisions, and sustain momentum during evolving briefs.
• Experience with research storytelling, creative technology, interactive or experiential work, motion systems, or AI-assisted making.

Mansioni

• Define the design problem, story, and visual direction with researchers and leads.
• Translate research concepts into accurate visual narratives, validated with subject-matter experts.
• Develop concepts and prototypes for experiments, demos, and experiences, iterating on ideas.
• Design across web, editorial, social, film, and experiential formats with a cohesive visual idea.
• Build reusable graphic systems, templates, and design patterns for research communications.
• Provide feedback and guide contributions from collaborators, upholding typography and information design.
• Own design delivery for complex workstreams, aligning with partners as research findings evolve.

Conoscenze

8+ yrs exp

Senior design judgement

Visual direction

Graphic design fundamentals

Flexible visual systems

Prototyping

Research storytelling

Leadership / guiding

AI-assisted making

Descrizione del lavoro

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Designer to lead hands-on design for research and experimental creative work.

You will help define visual direction, build prototypes, and carry ideas through to finished work across research communications, demos, and experiences. This role blends strong craft with experimental making, collaborating with researchers, creative leads, and production partners to turn complex scientific concepts into accessible visuals, scalable graphic systems, and clear storytelling