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Lead Product Designer, Health AI

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Leading Product Design for Health AI at OpenAI represents one of the most consequential intersections in technology today. Healthcare applications of AI demand exceptional design rigor, empathy, and responsibility—this role could literally save lives while navigating complex regulatory and ethical landscapes.

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# Lead Product Designer, Health AI @ OpenAI

**Location:** San Francisco, California

**Employment Type:** Full Time

**Salary:** $347,000 – $385,000 per year (plus equity)

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About the Role

OpenAI seeks an experienced product designer to craft healthcare product experiences. The Health AI team focuses on expanding access to medical expertise and deploying AI responsibly in high-stakes domains.

The company is building AI systems like ChatGPT Health and OpenAI for Healthcare that support patients, clinicians, and health workers while meeting high standards for safety, reliability, and privacy.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the overall design and product direction of OpenAI products
  • Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals
  • Partner closely with engineering, product management, AI research, and design peers to define both long-term strategy and short-term tactics
  • Engage in user research to better understand patients, clinicians, and health-conscious consumers
  • Contribute to and evolve the design system
  • Help establish design culture and grow the team
  • Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions
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    Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience shipping larger scale software products
  • Portfolio showcasing strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills with high quality standards
  • Deep motivation to improve health outcomes and expand access to medical expertise
  • Strong skills in thinking through complex interaction design problems
  • Impactful communication and storytelling abilities
  • Comfort tackling ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear vision
  • Enthusiasm for being immersed in AI research and defining AI-first product behavior
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    Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience with health-related products
  • Experience building compliant or regulated products in healthcare, enterprise, or finance
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    Compensation & Benefits

    **Salary Range:** $347,000–$385,000 annually

    **Additional Compensation:** Generous equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees

    Benefits Include:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter expenses)
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents; 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt
  • 13+ paid company holidays plus paid office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily office meals and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
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    About OpenAI

    OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The organization pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and seeks to deploy them safely through products, with safety and human needs at the core of its mission.

    OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.

    About OpenAI

    AI research lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5, DALL-E, and Sora. The company that brought AI to the mainstream with a simple chat interface.

    openai.com

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