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.
Experiments make expression, introspective, optimistic, thoughtful, and impactful things with frontier models. Continuing to experiment while pushing the spectrum of what the voice and stories we tell. We bring creative and technical collaborators together to explore what these models make possible through prototypes, interactive experiences, physical objects, and stories that invite people to participate, reflect, and imagine.
About the Opportunity
We’re looking for a Creative, Experiments to help develop and make original work for the Experiments program. You’ll contribute to a distinctive body of work with frontier models, finding ideas that connect new capabilities with human curiosity, humor, and everyday life.
You’re a creative thinker and a hands-on maker who moves comfortably between storytelling, design, and technology. You can turn an open-ended question into a compelling concept, build a working prototype with creative and technical partners, and carry an idea through iteration and delivery.
You’ll contribute ideas to the program’s creative agenda, identify opportunities worth exploring, and work with creative and technical partners to make them real. Working closely with the Experiments Team, you’ll help explore new possibilities for Research Design. The work may take the form of digital experiences, physical installations, playful objects, films, or formats we have yet to discover. Each experiment should have a clear idea, thoughtful execution, and a reason to matter to its audience.
This role is based in the US and partners closely with OpenAI’s Creative, Research, Product, Engineering, and Communications teams, alongside external makers and production partners.
In this role, you will:
- Contribute to the Experiments program’s slate of ideas, owning individual projects from initial exploration through public release in partnership with creative leads
- Develop original concepts that use frontier models to make work with humor, emotional depth, optimism, and meaningful impact
- Prototype early and often, working hands-on and with creative technologists to test interactions, explore model behavior, and refine the idea
- Collaborate across design, storytelling, engineering, and production to create digital and physical experiences with strong craft and a clear point of view
- Build relationships with internal teams and external makers, coordinate project needs, and use audience response and project learnings to inform the next experiment
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 8+ years of relevant experience
- Bring a portfolio of original experiments, experiences, or creative projects that shows your role in developing ideas, collaborating across disciplines, and making the work
- Combine conceptual thinking, experience design, and storytelling with curiosity about technology and a strong sense of humor, culture, and human behavior
- Are a resourceful maker who explores frontier models and emerging tools through practical experimentation and can partner effectively with technical specialists
- Can take ownership of open-ended projects, use feedback to refine what to pursue, and balance ambitious ideas with practical scope, timelines, and delivery
- Work with curiosity and generosity, build trust across disciplines, and contribute to an environment where collaborators take creative risks and learn together
- Support your teammates, adapt when experiments don’t go as planned, and iterate and ship quickly
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
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