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OpenAI's Business Marketing team is seeking a Motion Designer to create compelling motion work that helps organizations understand and deploy OpenAI's products. This is a hands-on, craft-focused role on the B2B creative team.
You will design and produce motion assets for integrated campaigns, product launches, customer stories, films, events, social content, web experiences, and presentations. Your work will translate complex AI technology and product capabilities into clear, engaging motion for business leaders, technical decision-makers, developers, and enterprise buyers. You'll develop visual narratives connecting OpenAI's technology to customer needs and business outcomes, working closely with designers, writers, producers, product marketers, and cross-functional partners throughout the creative process—from concept through final delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and produce motion assets across B2B marketing channels and touchpoints
- Translate complex technical concepts into accessible, compelling creative work
- Develop storyboards, motion studies, and prototypes to explore ideas and communicate 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
- Contribute to and apply OpenAI's motion design principles and systems
- Collaborate with producers and project managers to scope work and manage timelines
- Participate in reviews and critiques, providing and incorporating constructive feedback
The role operates on a hybrid model (3 days in office per week) based in San Francisco. OpenAI values curiosity over certainty, kindness over ego, and the ability to balance craft with decisiveness.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Animation, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of motion design experience with 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 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 fast-paced, evolving environment with high bar for quality
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience creating work for enterprise technology, AI, developer, or B2B audiences
- Experience 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
