OpenAI
Product Designer, Higher Education
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About the role
- We're looking for a staff-level product designer to shape how students and educators engage with AI and help define OpenAI's emerging higher education experiences.
- You'll work across immediate product needs and ambitious zero-to-one opportunities, from core learning and course experiences to campus-wide tools for teaching, research, and collaboration.
- This is a highly generative role for someone who can move from early exploration to concrete, high-fidelity product direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design for products that help students, faculty, and campus staff use AI safely, confidently, and productively.
- 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 students, faculty, campus staff, and institutions.
- Bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft and are motivated to raise the quality of design across OpenAI.
- 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.
Skills
- Our work spans core learning experiences, course-based tools, and campus-wide product solutions.
Benefits
- Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across OpenAI's higher education experiences.
- Design clear, trustworthy experiences for learning, course participation, and campus-wide use, including sensitive or high-trust interactions.
- Shape zero-to-one higher education experiences spanning colleges and universities, educators, courses, collaborative work, and builder-style workflows.
- Develop reusable patterns and principles that create coherence across core learning, course, and campus-wide products as the area grows.
- Have led substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas and can help shape both vision and execution.
Company info
- OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- The Education team is focused on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for students, faculty, and institutions.
- We're also exploring how OpenAI's technology can support colleges and universities, educators, teaching and research, and collaborative learning.
This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.