Product Designer, Codex

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Codex team plays a key role in this by changing how software gets built and who can build it. The team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI that works across research, engineering, product, and design to build an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively.

Design plays a critical role here. To succeed in our mission, it’s crucial that we make coding agents intuitive and accessible. We’re hiring a product designer to create products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. As an early team member, you’ll have a huge part in shaping our product direction and design culture.

About the Role

As a product designer on Codex, you’ll collaborate closely with a small team of product designers and cross-functional partners to shape the future of coding. You’ll partner closely with world-class engineers and researchers to bring cutting-edge capabilities into the hands of developers. Much of the work is 0–1, requiring you to balance a high-bar for craft, fast iteration, and strong product intuition. You’ll work on the end-to-end design of new features and improvements across a range of Codex products. You’ll help chart our course into the future as we evolve our technology, product, and design paradigms.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will

• Contribute to the overall design and product direction of OpenAI products.

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

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

• Engage in user research to better understand our users (software developers) 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

• Bring a strong technical background and have recently shipped code to production.

• Are deeply motivated by making coding agents intuitive and accessible, and expanding access to who can build software.

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

• Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp design thinking to technical trade-offs.

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

• Possess impactful communication and storytelling skills.

Bonus if you have

• Prior experience with research or developer-focused products or workflows.

• Have shipped side projects with AI or contributed to open-source AI tools.

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 https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to the overall design and product direction of OpenAI products.
• Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals.
• Partner closely with engineering, product management, research, and design peers to define both long-term strategy and short-term tactics.
• Engage in user research to better understand our users (software developers) and refine our products.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system.
• Help establish our design culture and grow our team.

Requirements

• Bring a strong technical background and have recently shipped code to production.
• Are deeply motivated by making coding agents intuitive and accessible, and expanding access to who can build software.
• Have a portfolio showcasing strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills, with a high bar for quality and craft.
• Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp design thinking to technical trade-offs.
• Get excited about being immersed in the AI research process and defining how AI-first products should look and behave.
• Possess impactful communication and storytelling skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with research or developer-focused products or workflows.
• Have shipped side projects with AI or contributed to open-source AI tools.

• Relocation assistance to new employees.