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Product Designer, Design Systems

OpenAI

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OpenAI is hiring a Product Designer for its Design Systems team, owning the design system foundations for ChatGPT. The role sets principles, patterns and standards for coherent, high-quality experiences at scale, working closely with research, engineering, product and design.

What you'll do

  • Define a high standard for craft and taste across ChatGPT
  • Own and evolve design foundations including typography, sizing, spacing, layout, motion, accessibility and responsive behaviour
  • Establish a shared source of truth across platforms for tokens, components and patterns
  • Build a comprehensive design systems framework with guidance on interface pattern use
  • Translate design judgment into durable standards using prototyping and evaluation workflows
  • Identify promising patterns across emerging product experiences and document them as reusable foundations
  • Partner with research, engineering, product and design to evolve the system and its architecture
  • Help shape new ChatGPT experiences while strengthening the shared design system

What we're looking for

  • Exceptional craft bar and motivation to raise design quality and clarity
  • Sophisticated design taste made explicit, teachable and actionable
  • Deep experience designing and evolving product or design systems at scale
  • View of a design system as a living body of product judgment
  • Exceptional command of typography, layout, spacing, responsive behaviour, accessibility and interaction design
  • Ability to move between foundational systems work and high-craft product experiences
  • Focus on choosing the right default as well as the full range of possibilities
  • Ability to explain when and why a product team should choose a pattern
  • Skill turning ambiguous or inconsistent work into a coherent, extensible system
  • Curiosity about emerging technology and how design systems can evolve with it

Good to know

  • Role based in San Francisco HQ
  • Relocation assistance offered to new employees
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