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OpenAI's creative studio is seeking a Senior Editor to establish editorial and post-production as a centralized, end-to-end creative capability. This is a builder role that combines hands-on editing excellence with organizational leadership and systems design.
You will personally edit high-priority films and content while building the global systems, standards, talent networks, and production infrastructure that enable the studio to move fluidly from early concept through prototype to finished work. Your influence begins well before footage reaches the edit—you will work alongside creative, production, design, and product teams to shape concepts, test ideas, develop scripts, plan coverage, and identify the right form for each story.
Key responsibilities include:
- Edit high-priority films and content with exceptional judgment across story, structure, pacing, performance, emotion, sound, music, graphics, and finishing.
- Use 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 to shape concepts, treatments, scripts, story architecture, and coverage plans.
- 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 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, and security.
- Develop approaches for global adaptation and localization that maintain meaning, tone, and emotional integrity 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, and finishing specialists.
- Match projects with the right editorial talent and production model, balancing creative ambition, expertise, location, cultural fluency, speed, and budget.
- Create thoughtful collaboration practices for internal creatives and external collaborators, including briefing, onboarding, review, feedback, and knowledge-sharing.
- Evaluate and introduce tools—including emerging AI-enabled creative tools—that expand prototyping, editing, versioning, and localization capabilities while protecting creative quality.
- Plan the future shape and capacity of the editorial function, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, resource planning, and managing additional editorial and post-production support.
- Raise the creative bar across the studio by sharing editorial thinking and helping collaborators make stronger narrative decisions throughout the creative process.
Requirements:
- 10+ years as an accomplished editor with a portfolio of exceptional narrative, commercial, documentary, social, product, or brand work.
- Excellent story instincts; ability to find clarity, humanity, and emotional shape in complex, technical, ambiguous, or incomplete material.
- View editing as more than a finishing step; use it to think, discover, prototype, and shape work from the beginning.
- Deep understanding of the full post-production lifecycle, including media management, offline and online workflows, motion and graphics, sound, music, color, VFX, finishing, localization, versioning, archival, and delivery.
- Experience building editorial operations or leading complex post-production across multiple teams, partners, markets, or regions.
- Ability to identify exceptional creative talent, build trusted relationships, and assemble the right team around a project.
- Capacity to create scalable global systems without losing flexibility, local nuance, experimentation, and judgment that great creative work requires.
- Curiosity about new creative technologies and thoughtfulness about where they can meaningfully improve the process.
- Comfort moving between detailed hands-on craft and broader questions of talent, tooling, operations, and organizational design.
- Generous collaboration, clear communication, strong feedback synthesis, and calm, decisive decision-making under deadline pressure.
- Desire to help build a modern creative studio capable of imagining, prototyping, making, and delivering meaningful work end-to-end.
