Senior Editor & Editorial Studio Lead (Remote)

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 258,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off and holidays

Mental health and wellness support

Relocation support

Meal/meal delivery credits

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Editor to establish editorial and post-production as a centralized, end-to-end capability for its creative studio in a remote US setting. You will personally edit high-priority work while building global systems, standards, and a talent network to support the studio from idea to finished work.

You will shape concepts with cross-functional teams, develop scripts, test narratives, and design scalable, language-ready editorial processes that preserve creative intent and

Responsibilities

• Edit high-priority films and content, bringing exceptional judgment across story, structure, pacing, performance, emotion, sound, music, graphics, and finishing.
• Help teams move from concept to prototype quickly, using editorial as a creative development tool to explore ideas, test narrative approaches, and make possibilities tangible before or during production.
• Partner with creative teams from the earliest stages of development to shape concepts, treatments, scripts, story architecture, coverage plans, production approaches, and the role of post.
• Build an end-to-end editorial capability spanning creative development, rapid prototyping, production support, offline editing, motion and graphics, sound, color, finishing, localization, versioning, and final delivery.
• Define global editorial and post-production standards, including workflows, technical specifications, review practices, media management, asset organization, archival systems, security protocols, and delivery requirements.
• Design systems that allow work to move efficiently across internal teams and external partners while preserving creative intent, quality, security, and clear ownership.
• Develop approaches for global adaptation and localization that maintain the meaning, tone, and emotional integrity of the work across languages, formats, platforms, and cultural contexts.
• Build and manage a trusted global network of editors, assistant editors, producers, motion designers, sound partners, composers, colorists, VFX artists, finishing specialists, and other post-production talent.
• Match projects with the right editorial talent and production model, balancing creative ambition, subject-matter expertise, location, cultural fluency, speed, and budget.
• Create thoughtful ways for internal creatives and external collaborators to work together, including briefing, onboarding, review, feedback, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Evaluate and introduce tools—including emerging AI-enabled creative tools—that expand how the studio can prototype, edit, version, localize, and make work while protecting creative quality and judgment.
• Plan the future shape and capacity of the editorial function, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, resource planning, and eventually managing additional editorial and post-production support.
• Raise the creative bar across the studio by sharing editorial thinking, teaching teams how to plan for post, and helping collaborators make stronger narrative decisions throughout the creative process.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Editor to establish editorial and post-production as a centralized, end-to-end capability for its creative studio in a remote US setting. You will personally edit high-priority work while building global systems, standards, and a talent network to support the studio from idea to finished work.

You will shape concepts with cross-functional teams, develop scripts, test narratives, and design scalable, language-ready editorial processes that preserve creative intent and