At a glance
OpenAI is hiring a Designer in San Francisco, CA. It is a full-time hybrid role in Product, Design & Programs, first listed on November 1. The advertised pay is $176,000–$195,000 a year. The description mentions Figma. OpenAI has 149 other openings in the US, 129 of them in San Francisco, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 209 Product & Design openings in San Francisco, CA today; the typical one asks for 6 years and advertises about $215,000 a year at the midpoint.
About this role
About the team
OpenAI didn’t begin as a traditional company. It began as an idea: that artificial intelligence could be developed in a way that benefits everyone. As a creative team, our role is to help make sure the work behind that idea is understood, as it leaves the lab and meets the world.
This company works at the frontier of intelligence. Like any frontier, it’s unfinished, constantly shifting, and still being explored. Our job is to stay close to that uncertainty and help shape how this story gets told, in a way that feels grounded and human. We do this through campaigns, launches, films, brand systems, and work that doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories yet. This team is for people who want to help shape something from the beginning.
About the role
We’re looking for a Designer to create thoughtful, high-quality work across consumer campaigns and brand identity. You’ll contribute original ideas and turn creative direction into finished design across campaigns, digital experiences, social content, presentations, and brand materials.
This is a hands-on maker role for someone who enjoys moving between concept development and detailed execution. You’ll work closely with creative leads, writers, marketers, and producers, bringing strong visual craft and an active interest in using AI tools to explore and develop creative work.
In this role, you will:
Develop visual ideas for consumer campaigns and brand initiatives, exploring multiple directions and explaining how each supports the brief.
Translate creative direction into polished designs across digital, social, presentation, and campaign formats, with careful attention to typography and composition.
Contribute to identity and campaign systems, carrying a clear visual idea through layouts, imagery, and related assets.
Partner with writers, art directors, motion designers, and producers to connect words and visuals and prepare work for production.
Use AI-enabled tools to explore concepts and generate variations, applying design judgment to select, refine, and integrate useful results.
Build and maintain reusable templates and assets within established brand systems, keeping files organized and handoffs clear.
Incorporate feedback, check finished work across formats, and communicate progress and constraints so collaborators can plan around delivery.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
A portfolio showing strong visual ideas and execution across brand identity, campaigns, or related graphic design work.
A solid command of typography, layout, composition, image-making, and visual hierarchy, with close attention to production detail.
The ability to contribute to concept development and independently execute defined deliverables in collaboration with a creative lead.
Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or equivalent tools, with experience preparing files for collaborative design and production workflows.
Practical curiosity about AI-assisted creative workflows and the ability to assess generated work critically rather than accept it as finished design.
Clear communication, openness to critique, and the ability to manage multiple assignments as priorities and creative directions evolve.
Experience with consumer or technology brands, motion, illustration, or creative coding is helpful. We value a portfolio that makes your own contribution and design process clear.
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 computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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