Identity Design Lead: Access & Security UX

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a senior design lead for identity experiences to shape permissions, access, risk, and administration across our consumer and enterprise products. You’ll translate complex policies and technical systems into clear, trustworthy user experiences.

Based in our San Francisco HQ, relocation assistance is available. You’ll partner with product, engineering, security, privacy, and design to align strategy, roadmap, and execution as OpenAI scales.

Responsibilities

• Lead design direction for identity, account security, permissions, and administrative experiences across OpenAI’s products.
• Design and ship experiences spanning sign-in, authentication, account recovery, device accounts, privacy, access controls, governance, and remediation.
• Define mental models and interaction patterns for human-to-agent and agent-to-agent identity, authorization, and trust.
• Help users understand what people, systems, and agents can access or do on their behalf.
• Design security checks and confirmation flows that protect sensitive actions while minimizing friction.
• Partner with product management, engineering, security, privacy, and design to shape strategy, roadmap, and execution.
• Navigate complex roles, policies, dependencies, and product states to maintain coherence as we scale.
• Contribute to and evolve design systems across OpenAI’s identity experiences.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a senior design lead for identity experiences to shape permissions, access, risk, and administration across our consumer and enterprise products. You’ll translate complex policies and technical systems into clear, trustworthy user experiences.

Based in our San Francisco HQ, relocation assistance is available. You’ll partner with product, engineering, security, privacy, and design to align strategy, roadmap, and execution as OpenAI scales.