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Product Designer, Monetization Platform

San Francisco$207K – $295K4/5
Our take

Monetization design at OpenAI involves the delicate challenge of building sustainable business models around transformative technology without compromising the user experience. This role requires balancing commercial success with OpenAI's mission of beneficial AI, making pricing and payment flows feel fair and accessible. Perfect for designers who enjoy the strategic complexity of monetization design at a mission-driven company.

Job description

Product Designer, Monetization Platform at OpenAI

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid — 3 days/week in office)

Salary: $207,000 – $295,000 + equity

Type: Full-time

About the Team

The Monetization team develops user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products including next-generation advertising experiences. Operating in a greenfield environment, the team emphasizes responsible AI product design that maintains user trust.

Core Principles

  • Advertising must benefit users long-term
  • Ads never influence ChatGPT responses
  • No user data sales or advertiser access to conversations
  • Trust prioritized over engagement metrics
  • Users manage personalization settings
  • Responsibilities

  • Build next-generation advertising tools for AI environments
  • Design advertiser-facing tools embodying privacy and trust principles
  • Develop user controls for ad personalization and opt-out flows
  • Partner across product, engineering, research, and policy teams
  • Navigate tradeoffs between business needs and platform health
  • Contribute to design culture emphasizing clarity, restraint, and responsibility
  • Qualifications

  • 5+ years designing digital products
  • Ads, monetization, or platform experience preferred
  • Design systems and complex interaction pattern familiarity
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience
  • Figma and modern design workflow proficiency
  • Benefits

    Health insurance, 401(k) with match, parental leave (24 weeks birth / 20 weeks non-birthing), flexible PTO, wellness support, learning stipends, relocation support.

    About OpenAI

    AI research lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5, DALL-E, and Sora.

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