Service Designer, Intelligence & Investigations

About the Team

The Intelligence and Investigations (I2) team provides intelligence to decision makers across OpenAI and investigates severe misuse of our products. I2’s work saves lives: we disrupt real-world violence, protect children, and prevent catastrophic harms from AI misuse. We draw on our investigations and in-depth analysis of a wide range of data sources to provide actionable quantitative and qualitative intelligence to OpenAI’s leadership.

Our analysts and investigators make sense of complex data to understand emerging risks and investigate severe misuse. They work closely with engineers who build tools that extend what human experts can see and do. The design of the investigative workflow shapes how effectively people can use those tools and act on what they learn.

About the Role

We’re hiring a service designer to shape how investigative cases move through OpenAI, from the first signal through review and action. You’ll work alongside investigators to understand what each case requires and how the overall workflow shapes what investigators can accomplish.

You’ll bring that perspective to the people who shape investigative operations and the engineers who build the underlying systems. Together, you’ll decide where a change would help and see how it works in real cases.

In this role, you will

• Work alongside investigators to understand how cases move across teams and systems. Consider what that process means for people at risk, people whose activity is under review, and the people responsible for acting on a finding.

• Combine what you learn from individual cases with operational data to decide where a change would help most and whether it calls for a change in the workflow, the tools, or both.

• Lead the cross-team work of mapping investigative workflows, designing improvements with the people who use and operate them, and putting agreed changes into practice.

• Guide engineering decisions about how investigative systems fit together to support the overall workflow.

• Follow changes into use. Look for whether they help investigators act in time, make well-supported decisions, and sustain demanding work.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have experience designing services around the needs of the people who use and run them.

• Enjoy learning how specialists work. You can draw on their different perspectives to understand a service that no single team sees in full.

• Have worked with operational and engineering teams to put a service design into practice. You’re comfortable discussing how a technical choice in one part of a workflow affects people elsewhere.

• Care about what happens after a design goes into use. You’re curious whether a change that helps one team also improves how a case moves through the full investigation workflow.

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.

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, incl

Responsibilities

• Work alongside investigators to understand how cases move across teams and systems
• Combine what you learn from individual cases with operational data to decide where a change would help most
• Lead the cross-team work of mapping investigative workflows, designing improvements, and putting agreed changes into practice
• Guide engineering decisions about how investigative systems fit together to support the overall workflow
• Follow changes into use to look for whether they help investigators act in time, make well-supported decisions, and sustain demanding work

Requirements

• Have experience designing services around the needs of the people who use and run them
• Enjoy learning how specialists work and drawing on their different perspectives
• Have worked with operational and engineering teams to put a service design into practice
• Care about what happens after a design goes into use and whether it improves how a case moves through the full investigation workflow