The posting
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
We’re looking for a San Francisco-based Content Maker to create social-first, platform-native content across OpenAI’s brand and product work. This role is for someone who can spot a good story, go capture it, and turn it into something sharp, clear, and engaging.
You’ll be hands-on across the full content process: ideating, shooting, scripting, editing, and publishing-ready execution. This could include filming behind-the-scenes moments, capturing quick interviews, making short-form videos, editing social cuts, building lightweight content series, or helping translate complex ideas into formats that feel human and easy to understand.
The right person has strong taste, moves quickly, knows how to shoot and edit, and understands how content behaves across social and digital platforms. You should be comfortable making work directly, not just directing it, and available to capture content in person in San Francisco as needed.
In this role, you will:
- Create social-first content across digital, editorial, and platform-native surfaces
- Shoot, capture, and edit short-form video, interviews, behind-the-scenes content, and lightweight storytelling formats
- Identify content opportunities in real time and move quickly to capture or create around them
- Turn complex ideas, product moments, and company stories into clear, engaging content
- Work hands-on across ideation, scripting, filming, editing, and execution
- Develop platform-native concepts for social posts, reels, stories, creator-style content, and lightweight editorial
- Partner with producers, designers, copywriters, marketers, and cross-functional teams to bring content from idea to final asset
- Help shape narrative arcs across short-form and always-on content
- Adapt tone, format, and pacing for different audiences and platforms
- Stay close to internet culture, platform behaviors, social trends, and emerging formats to keep the work fresh and relevant
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience
- Are based in San Francisco and available for in-person content capture as needed
- Understand short-form video, social storytelling, pacing, hooks, and platform behavior
- Are a true maker, comfortable shooting, editing, scripting, and building content directly
- Have strong creative instincts and can quickly turn ideas into compelling content
- Have experience creating content for social, digital, and platform-native environments
- Know how to capture real moments and shape them into clear, engaging stories
- Can balance speed, quality, and taste in a fast-moving environment
- Have strong judgment around what feels culturally relevant, brand-right, and worth making
- Are comfortable working independently and jumping in when there’s something to capture
- Collaborate well with producers, designers, copywriters, marketers, creators, and external partners
- Have a strong point of view on storytelling, internet culture, and how brands should show up in the world
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.
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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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