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Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 7 weeks ago · Added 2 weeks ago
Been open since 7 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$245k to $310k per year
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Design
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What the advert says
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- Working hours
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- Where you can work from
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ.
- Contract
Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, including multiple ways to perceive information, navigate interfaces, understand content, and complete important tasks.
- Experience asked for
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- Pay
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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Before you apply
Experience: employer states
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- “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.”
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About the role
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Design Systems team creates the foundations that help teams across OpenAI build coherent, high-quality experiences at scale.
Accessibility is fundamental to that work. We’re building the shared standards, components, tools, and practices that make inclusive experiences the default across OpenAI’s products and platforms.
About the Role
In this role, you’ll lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program from within the Design Foundations team within Product Design. You’ll pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design (visual and interaction design) —advocating for disabled people, removing barriers across complete customer journeys, and establishing durable ownership throughout the company.
This is an opportunity to define accessibility for a new generation of products spanning web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. You’ll help teams consider the many ways people perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology, going beyond minimum compliance to create experiences that are genuinely useful and inclusive.
Working across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal, you’ll make accessibility an expected part of product quality—not a final review or the responsibility of a single expert.
This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
Design and ship product experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relying solely on assumptions, simulations, or automated tools.
Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, including multiple ways to perceive information, navigate interfaces, understand content, and complete important tasks.
Establish practical standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, reading order, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms, errors, and multimodal interactions.
Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, launch readiness, and continuous validation across platforms.
Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness, accessibility documentation, procurement needs, and customer commitments.
Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, engineering partnerships, and a network of accessibility champions.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Pair deep accessibility expertise with a very high bar for design craft: strong interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and prototyping skills
Have led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
Understand the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design—and know when to go beyond standards to meet real human 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.
Requirements
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Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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