Product Designer, Higher Education
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 end-to-end design for products that help students, faculty, and campus staff use AI safely and productively. You'll shape zero-to-one higher education experiences, turn ideas into prototypes and high-fidelity designs, conduct research, and partner with product, engineering, research, safety, and policy. The role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance.
Requirements
- Exceptional interaction and visual design craft
- Experience leading substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas
- Strong product and systems thinking
- Ability to design for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts
- Ability to navigate needs of multiple audiences
- Clear communication and alignment across disciplines
Responsibilities
- Establish a high standard for craft across higher education experiences
- Lead end-to-end design for products for students, faculty, and campus staff
- Design trustworthy experiences for learning, course participation, and campus-wide use
- Shape zero-to-one higher education experiences
- Turn ideas into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity experiences
- Partner with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design
- Conduct research with students, faculty, campus staff, and institutions
- Develop reusable patterns and principles across products
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
