Product Design Intern (Summer 2025)

OpenAI • Full-time • San Francisco, California, United States • 1m ago

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We serve a diverse audience of users who are already using ChatGPT daily in their lives and work.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

Design plays a critical role here. To succeed in our mission, it’s crucial that we make our technology intuitive and accessible. We’re hiring a Product Design Intern to create products that are easy to use, beautiful, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. In this role you will have the opportunity to shape our product direction and design culture.

About the Role

As Product Design Intern, you’ll collaborate closely with a small team of product designers and cross-functional partners to craft product experiences of today and tomorrow. You’ll work on the end-to-end design of new features and improvements across a range of OpenAI products, and will help chart our course into the future as we evolve our technology, product, and design paradigms.

This is a 12-week internship assignment for summer 2025. Candidates must have at least one semester of schooling left after the completion of their internship.

What you’ll do in this role:

Contribute to the overall design and product direction at OpenAI
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 our users and refine our products

You might thrive in this role if you:

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

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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