Product Designer, Accessibility

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 245,000 - 310,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Strategic thinking","Organizational influence","Systems thinking","Product craft","Collaboration"]

Lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program within Design Foundations, combining accessibility strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design. Advocate for disabled people, identify and remove systemic barriers across complete customer journeys, and embed accessibility into the design system using inclusive components, tokens, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails. Partner across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal to make accessibility an expected part of product quality.

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Product Designer, Accessibility

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Job Summary

Lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program within Design Foundations, combining accessibility strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design. Advocate for disabled people, identify and remove systemic barriers across complete customer journeys, and embed accessibility into the design system using inclusive components, tokens, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails. Partner across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal to make accessibility an expected part of product quality.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
  • •Design and ship accessible experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
  • •Build accessibility into the design system via inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
  • •Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing.
  • •Establish standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, reading order, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms/errors, and multimodal interactions, and lead audits/remediation and validation across platforms.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 245,000 - 310,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •Have led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
  • •Pair deep accessibility expertise with strong interaction design, systems thinking, and product craft.
  • •Know the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design—and go beyond standards to meet real needs.
  • •Have deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards.
  • •Have embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.
Experience:AIAccessibilityDesign systems
Skills:Strategic thinkingOrganizational influenceSystems thinkingProduct craftCollaboration
Tech Stack:FigmaDesign systemsWCAG

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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