Product Designer, Youth

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

33d•$245,000 - $310,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Youth team at OpenAI is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for young people. This work includes foundational protections like age assurance and always-on safety, as well as new learning and education experiences. The team is also exploring how OpenAI's technology can support K–12 schools, educators, classrooms, and collaborative learning. This role is for a staff-level product designer who will shape how young people safely engage with AI and help define OpenAI’s emerging education experiences. The designer will work on immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, ranging from age-appropriate safety systems to tools for learning and group work. A high craft bar is essential, requiring exceptional interaction and visual design paired with deep product thinking to translate complex questions about safety, learning, and institutional needs into clear, trustworthy, and engaging experiences. This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction, partnering closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a developing space. The role is based in OpenAI's San Francisco HQ, with relocation assistance offered to new employees.

Requirements

Exceptional interaction and visual design craft.
Highly generative designer who explores broadly, iterates deeply, and turns ideas into concrete, polished product direction.
Strong craft paired with deep product and systems thinking.
Experience leading substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas and ability to shape both vision and execution.
Ability to design thoughtful experiences for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts.
Understanding of how to create products that are engaging and intuitive without compromising safety or clarity.
Ability to navigate the needs of multiple audiences, including young people, educators, administrators, and institutional partners.
Clear communication skills, ability to build alignment across disciplines, and willingness to remain hands-on throughout the product-development process.
Energized by the opportunity to define how AI can support learning while serving young people responsibly.

Nice To Haves

Motivated to raise the quality of design across OpenAI.

Responsibilities

Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI’s youth and education experiences.
Lead end-to-end design for products that help young people use AI safely, confidently, and productively.
Design clear, age-appropriate experiences for safety, age assurance, and other sensitive or high-trust interactions.
Shape zero-to-one K–12 experiences spanning school districts, educators, classrooms, collaborative work, and builder-style workflows.
Turn emerging ideas into compelling concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experiences that teams can evaluate and build.
Partner with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design to balance user needs, technical capabilities, and responsible deployment.
Conduct and apply research with relevant users and partners to understand the needs of young people, educators, and institutions.
Develop reusable patterns and principles that create coherence across youth and education products as the area grows.