Product Designer, GenUI

Details

In this role, you’ll lead the design foundations for generative UI across ChatGPT. You’ll make nuanced design judgment explicit and usable by both product teams and models, influencing how OpenAI defines, evaluates, and trains for craft and taste.

A paramount part of this role is raising OpenAI’s craft bar. This work extends beyond maintaining a component library: you’ll define what excellent generative UI looks and feels like, establish when and why a model should choose particular interface patterns, and help new experiences strengthen a coherent system across platforms.

Working closely with research, engineering, product, and design, you’ll build a continuous learning loop between design principles, generated interfaces, evaluation, and model behavior—shaping a system that becomes more coherent, capable, and expressive as model intelligence grows.

This role is based in OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters. Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Define an exceptionally high standard for craft and taste, and translate that standard into principles and examples that influence OpenAI’s products and how models are trained and evaluated.
• Own and evolve the foundations for generative UI, including typography, sizing, spacing, layout, motion, accessibility, and responsive behavior.
• Establish a shared source of truth across platforms and improve the layout and rendering systems that connect tokens, components, patterns, widgets, learning blocks, and app-like experiences.
• Build a comprehensive GenUI design framework with clear, opinionated guidance about when and how models and product teams should use different interface patterns.
• Translate design judgment into high-quality training material and use prototyping and evaluation workflows to test generated interfaces, identify recurring issues, and improve model behavior.
• Study emergent model behavior and turn promising outputs into reusable, documented patterns.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, and design to evolve the system, its technical architecture, and the model’s ability to use it.
• Help shape new generative experiences, including shopping, learning, and advanced reasoning, while ensuring their contributions strengthen the shared GenUI framework.

Requirements

• An exceptional craft bar and motivation to raise the quality, clarity, and distinctiveness of design across OpenAI.
• Sophisticated design taste and the ability to make the judgment behind it explicit, teachable, and useful as model-training and evaluation input.
• Deep experience designing and evolving product or design systems at scale.
• A view of design systems as living bodies of product judgment, not simply collections of components.
• Exceptional command of typography, layout, spacing, responsive behavior, accessibility, and interaction design.
• Ability to move fluently between foundational systems work and concrete, high-craft product experiences.
• Care for choosing the right default as well as designing the full range of possibilities.
• Ability to explain what a pattern should look like, when a model or product team should choose it, and why.
• Skill in turning ambiguous or inconsistent work into a coherent, extensible system.
• Curiosity about model training, evaluation, emergent behavior, and how product design can become useful data.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI pushes the boundaries of AI system capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them through its products, with safety and human needs at the core.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off and paid company holidays.
• 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 as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may also be provided.