Product Designer, Higher Education

The role

A staff-level product designer will shape how students and educators engage with AI. You will design end-to-end products and zero-to-one experiences for higher education, including learning, course-based tools, and campus-wide solutions.

What you will do

• Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across higher education experiences.
• Lead end-to-end design for products for students, faculty, and campus staff.
• Design clear, trustworthy experiences for learning and campus-wide use.
• Shape zero-to-one higher education experiences.
• Turn emerging ideas into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experiences.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design.
• Conduct and apply research with relevant users and partners.
• Develop reusable patterns and principles for core and campus-wide products.

Required qualifications

• Exceptional interaction and visual design craft.
• Highly generative designer who explores broadly and iterates deeply.
• Strong craft paired with deep product and systems thinking.
• Experience leading substantial, ambiguous, or zero-to-one product areas.
• Ability to design for sensitive, high-trust, or safety-critical contexts.
• Ability to create products that are engaging and intuitive without compromising safety or clarity.
• Ability to navigate the needs of multiple audiences including students, faculty, campus staff, administrators, and institutional partners.
• Ability to communicate clearly and build alignment across disciplines.
• Ability to remain hands-on throughout the product-development process.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Education team focuses on making AI safe, useful, and empowering for students, faculty, and institutions.