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Product Designer, Accessibility

OpenAI· Product Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$245k - $310kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program within the Design Foundations team, combining strategy with hands-on product design to advocate for disabled people, remove barriers across customer journeys, and establish durable ownership for accessibility across OpenAI’s products and platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
  • Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
  • Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
  • Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relying solely on assumptions, simulations, or automated tools.
  • Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, including multiple ways to perceive information, navigate interfaces, understand content, and complete important tasks.
  • Establish practical standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, reading order, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms, errors, and multimodal interactions.
  • Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, launch readiness, and continuous validation across platforms.
  • Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness, accessibility documentation, procurement needs, and customer commitments.
  • Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, engineering partnerships, and a network of accessibility champions.

Qualifications

  • Pair deep accessibility expertise with a very high bar for design craft: strong interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and prototyping skills
  • Have led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
  • Understand the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design—and know when to go beyond standards to meet real human needs.
  • Have deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards.
  • Have embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.
  • Have worked directly with disabled people and translated their experiences into meaningful product and organizational decisions.
  • Can identify assumptions and exclusion within a product journey, then turn those insights into clearer and more flexible ways to interact.
  • Are equally effective setting strategy, designing detailed experiences, and collaborating with engineers through implementation.
  • Can influence across disciplines without direct authority, creating shared accountability without becoming a centralized approval gate.

Skills

Required:Accessibility strategy and governanceParticipatory research and usability testingDesign systems and inclusive components

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
  • 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.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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