Creative Director, Global Partnerships in London

About The Team

OpenAI didn’t begin as a traditional company. It began as an idea: that artificial intelligence could be developed in a way that benefits everyone. As a creative team, our role is to help make sure the work behind that idea is understood, as it leaves the lab and meets the world. This company works at the frontier of intelligence. Like any frontier, it’s unfinished, constantly shifting, and still being explored. Our job is to stay close to that uncertainty and help shape how this story gets told, in a way that feels grounded and human. We do this through campaigns, launches, films, brand systems, and work that doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories yet. This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.

About The Role

As a Creative Director, Partnerships, you will lead the creative vision and execution for OpenAI’s external collaborations. You will shape how OpenAI shows up through partnerships — transforming emerging AI capabilities into compelling creative work alongside partners across culture, media, entertainment, and technology. This role sits at the intersection of brand, storytelling, and strategic collaboration. You will work closely with internal teams and external partners to develop ideas that are culturally relevant, creatively ambitious, and aligned with OpenAI’s mission and brand principles. We’re looking for a creative leader who is conceptually strong, culturally fluent, and energized by collaboration — someone who can guide creative partnerships from early concept through execution while maintaining a high bar for craft, storytelling, and brand integrity. This role is based in London, UK. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead creative direction for OpenAI’s Growth partnerships across campaigns, content, experiences, events, and collaborations.
• Collaborate closely with external partners and internal functions such as partnerships, marketing, communications and product, to shape partnership concepts from early ideation through launch.
• Ensure creative work across partnerships maintains a high standard of craft, storytelling, and brand alignment.
• Guide partners, agencies, creators, and production teams in bringing collaborative ideas to life.
• Identify opportunities where partnerships can express OpenAI’s mission in compelling and culturally relevant ways.
• Partner with the Creative Studio to align partnership work with global brand systems, creative frameworks, and standards.
• Interpret briefs and strategic objectives, distilling them into clear creative direction and innovative ideas.
• Act as a trusted creative partner to internal stakeholders and external collaborators, balancing creative ambition with responsible storytelling.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• Have a strong portfolio demonstrating creative leadership across campaigns, partnerships, or large-scale collaborations.
• Have 10+ years agency or in-house experience working on brands with strong, consistent and clearly defined meaning for consumers across international markets.
• Bring experience developing creative work with global brands, companies, or organizations across industries.
• Are energized by collaboration and comfortable navigating complex creative relationships across internal teams and external partners.
• Have strong conceptual instincts and the ability to translate complex or emerging technologies into clear, compelling ideas.
• Maintain a high bar for craft, storytelling, and creative integrity across formats and mediums.
• Are comfortable leading projects from early concept through production and launch.
• Enjoy working in fast-moving environments where creativity, experimentation, and responsibility go hand in hand.
• Are excited by the role of creative partnerships in shaping how new technologies are introduced to global audiences.

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.