OpenAI

Product Designer, Consumer Verticals

OpenAI • $120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in designing and shipping consumer software at scale
  • Exceptional skills in UX, UI, and interaction design
  • Experience leading zero-to-one product initiatives
  • Ability to simplify complex systems for user understanding
  • Strong instincts for trust, safety, and user control in sensitive contexts
  • Fluency in both domain-specific and broader systems thinking
  • Proficient in creating compelling narratives and prototypes for cross-functional alignment

Responsibilities

  • Shape product and design direction for consumer experiences in health, finance, and more
  • Design and ship high-quality products from concepts to final execution
  • Define ChatGPT's behavior across different domains while maintaining a cohesive experience
  • Explore new interaction models for AI systems that support complex user decisions
  • Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to create responsible products
  • Conduct user research to identify needs and risks in various verticals
  • Balance specialized domain requirements with reusable design patterns
  • Contribute to and elevate OpenAI's design culture

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Opportunity to work in a highly generative, innovative environment
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams of experts
  • Chance to shape the future of consumer AI experiences
Full Job Description
About the Role

In this role, you'll lead the end-to-end design of new consumer experiences across emerging verticals. You'll explore how ChatGPT should adapt to different contexts, translate complex model capabilities into clear product interactions, and establish patterns that can scale across multiple domains.

This is a highly generative, zero-to-one role. You'll move between broad product vision and detailed interaction design, creating prototypes that help teams learn quickly and polished experiences that are ready to ship. You'll also navigate domains where trust, accuracy, safety, and user agency are essential.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:
  • Shape the product and design direction for purpose-built consumer experiences across areas such as health, finance, and general consumer agents.
  • Design and ship high-quality products from early concepts and prototypes through detailed interaction design and final visual execution.
  • Define how ChatGPT should behave in different domains while preserving a coherent, distinctly OpenAI experience.
  • Explore new interaction models for AI systems that can understand context, support complex decisions, and take action on a user's behalf.
  • Partner closely with research, engineering, product management, safety, and domain experts to turn technical capabilities into useful and responsible products.
  • Conduct and apply user research to understand the distinct needs, expectations, and risks within each vertical.
  • Balance specialized domain requirements with reusable patterns that can strengthen ChatGPT and accelerate future product development.
  • Contribute to OpenAI's broader design culture and raise the bar for consumer product craft.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have substantial experience designing and shipping high-quality consumer software at scale.
  • Bring exceptional UX, UI, and interaction design skills, with a high bar for craft in every stage of the work.
  • Are a highly generative product thinker who can explore broadly, develop a strong point of view, and turn ambiguity into clear product direction.
  • Have led zero-to-one initiatives or introduced new product categories, behaviors, or interaction models.
  • Can simplify complex systems without hiding the details users need to make informed decisions.
  • Have strong instincts for trust, safety, transparency, and user control-particularly in consequential or sensitive experiences.
  • Can move fluently between domain-specific problems and broader systems or platform thinking.
  • Communicate through compelling narratives and prototypes that build alignment across design, research, product, and engineering.
  • Are excited to define how AI-first consumer products should look, feel, and behave as models become more capable and agentic.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Size
100 employees
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Founded
2015

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