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Product Designer, Youth

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

About the role

Staff-level product designer focused on shaping how young people safely engage with AI and defining OpenAI’s emerging education experiences, spanning age-appropriate safety systems to learning and group-work tools.

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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Crafted interaction designVisual designProduct strategyCross-functional collaborationUser research

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents, 20 weeks for non-birthing) 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 additional paid 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 for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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