Product Designer, Codex

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a product designer for Codex in San Francisco, CA. You’ll collaborate with a small team of product designers and cross-functional partners to shape the future of coding, balancing craft with fast iteration and strong product intuition.

This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office per week and relocation assistance for new employees. You’ll work on end-to-end design across Codex products and help chart our course in collaboration with engineers and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product designers and cross-functional partners to shape the future of coding.
• Partner closely with engineers, researchers, and product management to bring cutting-edge capabilities to developers.
• Design end-to-end features across Codex products, balancing craft, iteration speed, and strong product intuition.
• Engage in user research to better understand our users.

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Codex team plays a key role in this by changing how software gets built and who can build it. The team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI that works across research, engineering, product, and design to build an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Design plays a critical role here. To succeed in our mission, it’s crucial that we make coding agents intuitive and accessible. We’re hiring a product designer to create products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. As an early team member, you’ll have a huge part in shaping our product direction and design culture.

About the Role

As a product designer on Codex, you’ll collaborate closely with a small team of product designers and cross‑functional partners to shape the future of coding. You’ll partner closely with world‑class engineers and researchers to bring cutting‑edge capabilities into the hands of developers. Much of the work is 0–1, requiring you to balance a high‑bar for craft, fast iteration, and strong product intuition. You’ll work on the end‑to‑end design of new features and improvements across a range of Codex products. You’ll help chart our course into the future as we evolve our technology, product, and design paradigms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

• Contribute to the overall design and product direction of OpenAI products.
• Design and ship high‑quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high‑fidelity prototypes and visuals.
• Partner closely with engineering, product management, research, and design peers to define both long‑term strategy and short‑term tactics.
• Engage in user research to better understand our users.