Product Design Lead, Growth - Codex

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our product teams work across research, engineering, product, data, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to people and businesses around the world.

Design plays a critical role in making powerful AI intuitive, useful, and trustworthy. We hold a high bar for quality and build experiences that earn users’ confidence, while moving quickly and learning from real-world feedback. We favor early validation and continuous refinement over waiting until every detail is perfect.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a portfolio demonstrating exceptional product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft across complex, shipped products.
• Are a player-coach who enjoys developing other designers while remaining close to the details of the work.
• Have managed product designers, or are a senior design leader who has meaningfully mentored others, led complex initiatives, and raised the quality of a broader team.
• Can coach designers to move quickly while maintaining a high bar for clarity, coherence, and craft.
• Are fluent in using AI as part of how you explore, prototype, communicate, and create.
• Are comfortable working with data and experiments, and can balance quantitative signals with research, judgment, and design intuition.
• Possess strong product judgment and can connect user needs, business goals, and technical possibilities.
• Can turn ambiguous, fast-moving problems into a clear vision and actionable direction.
• Communicate clearly and can align teams around a compelling product narrative.
• Are excited to rethink established patterns and invent interactions that feel native to AI.
• Thrive in highly collaborative environments and enjoy partnering closely with engineering, product, research, and data teams.
• Care deeply about building products that are useful, trustworthy, and worthy of users’ time.

Direct experience in growth design, developer products, or people management is welcome but not required. We’re open to experienced design managers as well as exceptional senior individual contributors who have demonstrated strong mentorship, leadership, and team-level impact.

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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