NewProduct Designer, Design Systems
Apply on OpenAIThis role leads and evolves the design system foundations for ChatGPT, making nuanced design judgment explicit and usable across product teams. It focuses on establishing principles, patterns, and standards to enable coherent, high-quality experiences at scale and on raising OpenAI’s craft bar beyond maintaining a component library. The role involves working closely with research, engineering, product, and design to create a continuous learning loop between design principles, product experiences, evaluation, and evolving technology as ChatGPT grows.
What you'll do
- Define an exceptionally high standard for craft and taste and translate that into principles, guidance, and examples that elevate ChatGPT quality
- Own and evolve ChatGPT’s design foundations, including typography, sizing, spacing, layout, motion, accessibility, and responsive behavior
- Establish a shared source of truth across platforms and improve systems connecting tokens, components, patterns, widgets, learning experiences, and app-like product experiences
- Build a comprehensive design systems framework with clear, opinionated guidance about when and how product teams should use different interface patterns
- Translate design judgment into durable standards and use prototyping and evaluation workflows to test experiences, identify recurring issues, and improve the system
- Identify promising patterns across emerging product experiences and turn them into reusable, documented foundations
- Partner with research, engineering, product, and design to evolve the design system, its technical architecture, and its application across ChatGPT
- Help shape new ChatGPT experiences — including shopping, learning, and advanced reasoning — while ensuring they strengthen the shared design system
What they're looking for
- Bring an exceptional craft bar and be motivated to raise the quality, clarity, and distinctiveness of design across OpenAI
- Have sophisticated design taste and be able to make the judgment behind it explicit, teachable, and actionable for others
- Have deep experience designing and evolving product or design systems at scale
- See a design system as a living body of product judgment, not simply a collection of components
- Have exceptional command of typography, layout, spacing, responsive behavior, accessibility, and interaction design
- Can move fluently between foundational systems work and concrete, high-craft product experiences
- Care as much about choosing the right default as designing the full range of possibilities
- Can explain not only what a pattern should look like, but when a product team should choose it and why
Learn the skills this role asks for
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