Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $245K – $310K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses 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's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Youth team is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for young people.
Our work spans foundational protections,including age assurance and always-on safety,as well as new learning and education experiences. We're also exploring how OpenAI's technology can support K–12 schools, educators, classrooms, and collaborative learning.
About the Role
We're looking for a staff-level product designer to shape how young people safely engage with AI and help define OpenAI's emerging education experiences. You'll work across immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, from age-appropriate safety systems to tools for learning and group work.
A high craft bar is imperative. You'll be expected to pair exceptional interaction and visual design with deep product thinking,turning complex questions around safety, learning, and institutional needs into experiences that feel clear, trustworthy, and engaging.
This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a space that is still being defined.
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.
Requirements
- Bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft and are motivated to raise the quality of design across OpenAI.
- Are a highly generative designer who explores broadly, iterates deeply, and turns ideas into concrete, polished product direction.
- Pair strong craft with deep product and systems thinking.
- Have led substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas and can help shape both vision and execution.
- Can design thoughtful experiences for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts.
- Understand how to create products that are engaging and intuitive without compromising safety or clarity.
- Can navigate the needs of multiple audiences, including young people, educators, administrators, and institutional partners.
- Communicate clearly, build alignment across disciplines, and remain hands-on throughout the product-development process.
- Are energized by the opportunity to define how AI can support learning while serving young people responsibly.