Product Designer, Youth

Nicedesignjobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI’s Youth team is hiring a staff-level product designer to shape how young people safely engage with AI and support K–12 education experiences. You’ll craft age-appropriate safety systems and learning tools, pairing exceptional interaction and visual design with deep product thinking.

You’ll work across early exploration to concrete direction, partnering with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a space still being defined.

Qualifications

• Exceptional interaction design and visual craft
• Deep product thinking and systems thinking
• Leadership in ambiguous/zero-to-one product areas
• Ability to balance user needs with safety and institutional constraints

Responsibilities

• Establish high craft standards across youth and education experiences
• Lead end-to-end design for age-appropriate safety and learning products
• Design age-appropriate experiences for safety, age assurance, and high-trust interactions
• Shape zero-to-one K–12 experiences across districts, educators, classrooms, and collaboration workflows
• Turn ideas into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experiences
• Collaborate with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design
• Conduct research with users and partners to understand needs of young people, educators, institutions
• Develop reusable patterns and principles for coherence across youth and education products

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Youth team is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for young people.

Our work spans foundational protections—including age assurance and always-on safety—as well as new learning and education experiences. We’re also exploring how OpenAI’s technology can support K–12 schools, educators, classrooms, and collaborative learning.

About the Role

We’re looking for a staff-level product designer to shape how young people safely engage with AI and help define OpenAI’s emerging education experiences. You’ll work across immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, from age-appropriate safety systems to tools for learning and group work.

A high craft bar is imperative. You’ll be expected to pair exceptional interaction and visual design with deep product thinking—turning complex questions around safety, learning, and institutional needs into experiences that feel clear, trustworthy, and engaging.

This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to establish durable patterns for a space that is still being defined.

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

In this role you will:

• Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI’s youth and education experiences.
• Lead end-to-end design for products that help young people use AI safely, confidently, and productively.
• Design clear, age-appropriate experiences for safety, age assurance, and other sensitive or high-trust interactions.
• Shape zero-to-one K–12 experiences spanning school districts, educators, classrooms, collaborative work, and builder-style workflows.
• Turn emerging ideas into compelling concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experiences that teams can evaluate and build.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design to balance user needs, technical capabilities, and responsible deployment.
• Conduct and apply research with relevant users and partners to understand the needs of young people, educators, and institutions.
• Develop reusable patterns and principles that create coherence across youth and education products as the area grows.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft and are motivated to raise the quality of design across OpenAI.
• Are a highly generative designer who explores broadly, iterates deeply, and turns ideas into concrete, polished product direction.
• Pair strong craft with deep product and systems thinking.
• Have led substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas and can help shape both vision and execution.
• Can design thoughtful experiences for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts.
• Understand how to create products that are engaging and intuitive without compromising safety or clarity.
• Can navigate the needs of multiple audiences, including young people, educators, administrators, and institutional partners.
• Communicate clearly, build alignment across disciplines, and remain hands‑on throughout the product‑development process.
• Are energized by the opportunity to define how AI can support learning while serving young people responsibly.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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