About this role
Designers who enjoy building zero-to-one products for complex, sensitive domains will find a strong fit on the Youth team at OpenAI. The group builds technology that helps young people engage safely with artificial intelligence while defining new educational experiences for K–12 schools, educators, and classrooms. This staff-level position focuses on shaping foundational protections like age assurance alongside collaborative learning tools, turning ambiguous problems into clear and trustworthy interactions.
The role exists to establish a high standard of visual and interaction craft as the organization expands its youth and educational offerings. Successful candidates bring deep product thinking and systems design expertise, balancing safety requirements with intuitive user experiences. Collaborating across research, engineering, policy, and safety, the designer navigates multiple audiences ranging from students to institutional partners.
What you will do
- 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.
What you need
- Bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft to raise the quality of design across the organization.
- Act as a highly generative designer who explores broadly, iterates deeply, and turns ideas into concrete product direction.
- Pair strong visual and interaction craft with deep product and systems thinking.
- Demonstrate experience leading substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas to shape both vision and execution.
- Design thoughtful experiences for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts.
- Communicate clearly, build cross-disciplinary alignment, and remain hands-on throughout the product development process.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Relocation assistance to new employees
Questions candidates ask
Where is this role located?
This role is based in the San Francisco HQ. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
What is the compensation for this position?
The salary range is $245K to $310K with offers of equity.
What kind of team will I be working with?
You will partner closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design teams. The work focuses on foundational protections and learning experiences for young people and K-12 education.