Product Designer, Accessibility
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll lead OpenAI's company-wide accessibility program from within the Design Foundations team, pairing strategy with hands-on visual and interaction design. You'll embed accessibility into the design system, run research with disabled people, set standards, lead audits, and partner with cross-functional teams across web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. The role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance.
Requirements
- Deep accessibility expertise with a very high bar for design craft
- Experience leading accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms
- Deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, and platform-specific standards
- Experience embedding accessibility into design systems and engineering workflows
- Experience working directly with disabled people
- Strong interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and prototyping skills
- Ability to influence across disciplines without direct authority
Responsibilities
- Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers across customer journeys
- Define accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress
- Build accessibility into the design system through components, tokens, patterns, Figma libraries, and documentation
- Conduct participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing with disabled people
- Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities
- Establish standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms, and multimodal interactions
- Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, and launch readiness
- Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness and customer commitments
- Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, and accessibility champions
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
