Product Designer, People Innovation Labs

About the Role

We’re hiring a Product Designer to support People Innovation Labs, a fast-moving engineering team embedded in the People organization focused on rethinking how we find and retain the best talent and empower everyone to do their best work.

From recruiting to culture, we’re designing systems and products that give our People Team a significant edge by infusing OpenAI’s models and first-principles thinking into every aspect of our work. Our projects range from greenfield 0-1 products like OpenHouse (our internal knowledge hub) to AI-powered automations and scalable recruiting tools. We’re defining the future of work at OpenAI, creating a blueprint for how AI can supercharge productivity, culture, and innovation.

In this role, you’ll be embedded with Product and Engineering to ensure our work drives measurable business outcomes.

In this role you will

• Contribute to the overall design and product direction for internal People products at OpenAI

• Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals

• Partner closely with engineering, product management, AI research, and design peers to define both long-term strategy and short-term tactics

• Engage in user research to better understand our users and refine our products

• Contribute to and evolve our design system

• Help establish our design culture and grow our team

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have 4+ years of experience shipping larger scale software products

• Have a portfolio showcasing strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills, with a high bar for quality and craft

• Love thinking through complex interaction design problems

• Possess impactful communication and storytelling skills

• Enjoy tackling ambiguous problems and shaping them into a clear vision

• Get excited about being immersed in the AI research process and defining how AI-first products should look and behave