About the RoleAs Senior Editor, you will establish editorial and post-production as a centralized, end-to-end creative capability for OpenAI's creative studio. You will personally edit high-priority work while building the global systems, standards, talent network, and production infrastructure that enable the studio to move fluidly from early idea to prototype to finished work.
We're looking for an exceptional editor who is also a builder. You will bring strong narrative instincts and finishing craft, but your influence will begin 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.
You will help create an editorial model that can support work across formats, markets, languages, and timelines-enabling teams to make quickly when speed matters and scale thoughtfully when the ambition requires it. Over time, you will develop the people, partnerships, tools, and operating practices needed to make editorial and post-production a durable global capability.
This role is based in Remote Los Angeles, with periodic travel to other OpenAI offices.
In this role, you will:- Edit high-priority films and content, bringing exceptional judgment across story, structure, pacing, performance, emotion, sound, music, graphics, and finishing.
- Help teams move from concept to prototype quickly, using 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 of development to shape concepts, treatments, scripts, story architecture, coverage plans, production approaches, and the role of post.
- 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 final 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, security, and clear ownership.
- Develop approaches for global adaptation and localization that maintain the meaning, tone, and emotional integrity of the work 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, finishing specialists, and other post-production talent.
- Match projects with the right editorial talent and production model, balancing creative ambition, subject-matter expertise, location, cultural fluency, speed, and budget.
- Create thoughtful ways for internal creatives and external collaborators to work together, including briefing, onboarding, review, feedback, and knowledge-sharing practices.
- Evaluate and introduce tools-including emerging AI-enabled creative tools-that expand how the studio can prototype, edit, version, localize, and make work while protecting creative quality and judgment.
- Plan the future shape and capacity of the editorial function, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, resource planning, and eventually managing additional editorial and post-production support.
- Raise the creative bar across the studio by sharing editorial thinking, teaching teams how to plan for post, and helping collaborators make stronger narrative decisions throughout the creative process.
You might thrive in this role if you:- Have 10+ years as an accomplished editor with a portfolio of exceptional narrative, commercial, documentary, social, product, or brand work.
- Bring excellent story instincts and can find clarity, humanity, and emotional shape in complex, technical, ambiguous, or incomplete material.
- See editing as more than a finishing step: you use it to think, discover, prototype, and shape the work from the beginning.
- Understand 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.
- Have experience building editorial operations or leading complex post-production across multiple teams, partners, markets, or regions.
- Know how to identify exceptional creative talent, build trusted relationships, and assemble the right team around a project.
- Can create scalable global systems without losing the flexibility, local nuance, experimentation, and judgment that great creative work requires.
- Are curious about new creative technologies and thoughtful about where they can meaningfully improve the process-not simply accelerate it.
- Are comfortable moving between detailed hands-on craft and broader questions of talent, tooling, operations, and organizational design.
- Collaborate generously, communicate clearly, synthesize feedback well, and remain calm and decisive under deadline pressure.
- Want to help build a modern creative studio capable of imagining, prototyping, making, and delivering meaningful work from end to end.
