Product Designer, Design Systems

About the Role 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 our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role you will: Define an exceptionally high standard for craft and taste, and translate that standard into principles and examples that influence both 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. You might thrive in this role if you: Bring an exceptional craft bar and are motivated to raise the quality, clarity, and distinctiveness of design across OpenAI. Have sophisticated design taste and can make the judgment behind it explicit, teachable, and useful as model-training and evaluation input. Have deep experience designing and evolving product or design systems at scale. See a design system as a living body of product judgment, not simply a collection of components. Have exceptional command of typography, layout, spacing, responsive behavior, accessibility, and interaction design. Can move fluently between foundational systems work and concrete, high-craft product experiences. Care as much about choosing the right default as designing the full range of possibilities. Can explain not only what a pattern should look like, but when a model or product team should choose it and why. Are skilled at turning ambiguous or inconsistent work into a coherent, extensible system. Are curious 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. 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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all c