Product Design Manager
OpenAIAbout the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Application Technology team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We serve a diverse audience of users who are already using ChatGPT, Codex, API, etc, daily in their lives and work.
We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.
About the Role
Design plays a critical role here. To succeed in our mission, it’s crucial that we make our technology intuitive and accessible. We’re hiring a design manager to lead products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. As an early team leader, you’ll have a huge part in shaping our product direction and design culture.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with a team of product designers and cross-functional partners to craft the Foundations experiences of today and tomorrow. You’ll lead product designers working on the end-to-end design of new features and improvements across enterprise and consumer mission critical experiences. You’ll help chart our course into the future as we evolve our technology, product, and design paradigms.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Lead design and help shape product direction across OpenAI’s Foundational Systems across consumer and enterprise on Payments, Identity & Access, and the developer/research tools that power our ecosystem
Set a high bar for design quality, delivering clear, cohesive experiences that build trust
Manage and grow a team of product designers, fostering a strong culture of craft, ownership, and performance
Drive consistency and alignment across complex, interconnected systems
Identify and prioritize shared capabilities to unlock scale across the OpenAI ecosystem
Partner closely with engineering, product, and research to shape both long-term strategy and near-term execution
Use research and insights to deeply understand users and continuously improve the product
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