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Product Designer, Monetization Platform

San Francisco$207K – $295K+ EquityYesterday4/5
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Designing monetization for OpenAI means figuring out how to make world-changing AI technology sustainable and accessible — a fascinating balance of business strategy and user experience. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy and design, perfect for someone who wants to influence not just how AI products work, but how they reach and serve different communities.

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# Product Designer, Monetization Platform @ OpenAI

Position Details

Title: Product Designer, Monetization Platform

Location: San Francisco, California

Employment Type: Full Time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Telecommute option available)

Salary Range: $207,000 – $295,000/year

Additional Compensation: Equity offerings

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About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build foundational systems that help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. The mission focuses on developing user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products—including next-generation advertising experiences—that strengthen user trust and unlock economic opportunity.

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. The team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.

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Core Principles

  • Mission alignment: Advertising must support OpenAI's mission and long-term benefit to users
  • Answer independence: Ads never influence ChatGPT's responses; helpful answers come first
  • Conversation privacy: User conversations remain private; data is not sold or shared with advertisers
  • Long-term value: Trust and experience are prioritized over time spent or short-term optimization
  • Choice and control: Users have clear controls over personalization and can choose ad-free experiences

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    About the Role

    Design plays a critical role in upholding these principles. This position involves designing and building the monetization platform that powers privacy-preserving advertising at scale. The focus is on building scalable, high-quality platforms that enable performant, advertiser-centric experiences while raising industry standards.

    What You'll Do

  • Build next-generation advertising tools for an AI-first world
  • Translate product principles—privacy, independence, choice, and trust—into concrete product and interaction decisions for advertiser-facing tools
  • Partner with product, engineering, research, and policy teams to define new monetization and ads surfaces, systems, and workflows from the ground up
  • Design user-facing controls for ad personalization, data usage, and opt-out flows, plus intuitive interfaces for advertisers to manage campaigns responsibly
  • Navigate complex tradeoffs between business needs, user trust, and long-term platform health
  • Create thoughtful artifacts that align cross-functional teams and guide execution across consumer and console experiences
  • Contribute to a design culture that values clarity, restraint, and responsibility alongside craft

    • Why You'll Love This Role

  • A rare opportunity to design advertising from first principles in a brand-new medium
  • Direct impact on how millions experience trust, privacy, and control in AI products
  • The chance to shape an ads system prioritizing long-term value over short-term metrics
  • A deeply collaborative, mission-driven environment that takes design seriously

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    Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience designing digital products; more senior candidates welcome
  • Experience with ads, monetization, or platform design is a strong plus
  • Familiarity with design systems and complex interaction patterns
  • Experience working closely with engineering, product, and policy partners
  • Proficiency with Figma and modern design workflows

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    You Might Thrive in This Role If You

  • Have experience shipping large-scale software products
  • Have a portfolio showcasing strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills with high quality standards
  • Love thinking through complex interaction design problems
  • Possess impactful communication and storytelling skills
  • Enjoy tackling ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear vision
  • Get excited about being immersed in the AI research process and defining how AI-first products should look and behave

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    About OpenAI

    OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The organization pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them through its products. AI is recognized as an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core.

    OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does 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 characteristics.

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    Compensation & Benefits

    Salary Range: $207,000 – $295,000/year

    Benefits Package:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan 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 with coordinated office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more as required by law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits including charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

    • 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.

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