Product Designer, Accessibility

The role

You will lead the company-wide accessibility program within the Design Foundations team. You will pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on visual and interaction design to remove barriers across customer journeys.

What you will do

• Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers
• Define accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress
• Build accessibility into the design system through components, tokens, and documentation
• Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing
• Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities
• Establish practical standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, and multimodal interactions
• Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, and launch readiness
• Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams
• Grow company-wide capability through training and engineering partnerships

Required qualifications

• Deep accessibility expertise
• Strong interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and prototyping skills
• Led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms
• Understand the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design
• Deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards
• Embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows
• Worked directly with disabled people and translated their experiences into product decisions
• Ability to identify assumptions and exclusion within a product journey
• Effective at setting strategy, designing detailed experiences, and collaborating with engineers
• Ability to influence across disciplines without direct authority

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.