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Product Designer, Higher Education

OpenAI· Product Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Staff-level product designer to shape how students and educators engage with AI and help define OpenAI’s emerging higher education experiences, working across core learning experiences, course-based tools, and campus-wide product solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI’s higher education experiences.
  • Lead end-to-end design for products that help students, faculty, and campus staff use AI safely, confidently, and productively.
  • Design clear, trustworthy experiences for learning, course participation, and campus-wide use, including sensitive or high-trust interactions.
  • Shape zero-to-one higher education experiences spanning colleges and universities, educators, courses, 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 students, faculty, campus staff, and institutions.
  • Develop reusable patterns and principles that create coherence across core learning, course, and campus-wide 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
  • Pair strong craft with deep product and systems thinking
  • Led substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas and can shape vision and execution
  • Design thoughtful experiences for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts
  • Create products that are engaging and intuitive without compromising safety or clarity
  • Navigate needs of multiple audiences including students, faculty, campus staff, administrators, and institutional partners
  • Clear communication, alignment across disciplines, and hands-on participation throughout product development
  • Energized by defining how AI can support learning while serving higher education communities responsibly.

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 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 and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt
  • 13+ paid company holidays and paid office closures, plus 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 such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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