Editor

Compensation

$258.3K – $286.2K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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.

About the Role

As 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.