Product Designer, Accessibility
Product Design - San Francisco
About the Team
OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Design Systems team creates the foundations that help teams across OpenAI build coherent, high-quality experiences at scale.
Accessibility is fundamental to that work. We're building the shared standardss.
About the Role
In this role, you'll lead OpenAI's company-wide accessibility program from within the Design Foundations team within Product Design. You'll pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design (visual and interaction design) —advocating for disabled people, removing barriers across complete customer journeys, and establishing durable ownership throughout the company.
This is an opportunity to define accessibility for a new generation of products spanning web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. You'll help teams consider the many ways people perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology, going beyond minimum compliance to create experiences that are genuinely useful and inclusive.
Working across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal, you'll make accessibility an expected part of product quality—not a final review or the responsibility of a single expert.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
Define OpenAI's accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relying solely on assumptions, simulations, or automated tools.
Design for permanentation, navigate interfaces, understand content, and complete important tasks.
Establish practical standards for screen readerss, errors, and multimodal interactions.
Lead accessibility auditss.
Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness, accessibility documentation, procurement needs, and customer commitments.
Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, engineering partnerships, and a network of accessibility champions.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Pair deep accessibility expertise with a very high bar for design craft: strong interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and prototyping skills
Have led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teamss.
Understand the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design—and know when to go beyond standards to meet real human needs.
Have deep practical knowledge of WCAG-specific standards.
Have embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.
Have worked directly with disabled people and translated their experiences into meaningful product and organizational decisions.
Can identify assumptions and exclusion within a product journey, then turn those insights into clearer and more flexible ways to interact.
Are equally effective setting strategy, designing detailed experiences, and collaborating with engineers through implementation.
Can influence across disciplines without direct authority, creating shared accountability without becoming a centralized approval gate.
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 the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.
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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$245K – $310K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.