Design Manager, Web
OpenAI
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Go To Market
Compensation
- $240K – $295K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
The OpenAI Marketing Design Team (Design Studio) is pivotal in shaping and maintaining OpenAI’s brand identity across all platforms and audiences. We work at the intersection of product development, communications, marketing, engineering, and research—delivering cohesive storytelling and brand experiences.
Our mission is to communicate the advancements and benefits of AGI with beauty, accessibility, transparency, and authenticity. Within this mission, the Web and Digital Experience Team plays a critical role in creating, managing, and scaling web and digital programs that reflect OpenAI’s brand and global objectives, fostering company-wide collaboration and innovative solutions.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Design manager to shape the future of OpenAI.com. This role is responsible for creating exceptional web experiences that bring our brand, mission, and products to life for a global audience. You’ll work closely with engineering, brand design, and marketing to build and evolve OpenAI.com into a world-class destination.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
Own the UX vision and strategy for OpenAI.com, creating clear, elegant, and scalable experiences across the site.
Lead design from concept to implementation: defining user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
Collaborate deeply with engineers, brand designers, marketers, and writers to ship polished, high-performing experiences.
Balance user needs, technical constraints, and brand expression to craft delightful experiences for a broad set of audiences.
Help evolve our web design system in partnership with brand and engineering.
Guide and mentor other designers on the team, elevating the craft and execution quality across OpenAI.com.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 6+ years of experience designing large-scale, consumer-facing websites or web products.
Are a strong systems thinker who can architect intuitive, elegant experiences across complex information hierarchies.
Excel in cross-functional environments—you’re energized by collaborating with engineers, marketers, writers, and brand teams.
Can comfortably zoom between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
Value craft and polish—you sweat the details to ensure a world-class user experience.
Are curious, humble, and mission-driven. You seek feedback and learn fast.
Have experience working with modern web technologies and CMS platforms.
Are familiar with motion design or micro-interactions to enhance UX.
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Leverage A/B testing, UX research, or analytics to inform design decisions
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
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Compensation Range: $240K - $295K