Product Designer, Monetization

About The Team

The Monetization team at OpenAI is a new cross-functional group spanning engineering, product, research, and design. Our mission is to build foundational systems that scale access to intelligence responsibly, developing user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences. This strengthens user trust, unlocks economic opportunity, and supports OpenAI’s long-term innovation. Monetization is crucial for OpenAI to advance AI capabilities while ensuring AGI benefits are widely shared. We believe monetization must align with user value, rigorous privacy/safety standards, and a healthy developer/business ecosystem. This team operates in a greenfield environment, moving quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale.

About The Role

Our approach as a Product Designer, Monetization is grounded in core principles:

• Mission alignment: Advertising supports OpenAI’s mission and user benefit.
• Answer independence: Ads never influence ChatGPT’s responses; helpful, accurate answers come first.
• Conversation privacy: User conversations are private, not sold or shared with advertisers.
• Long-term value: Prioritize trust and experience over short-term optimization.
• Choice and control: Users have clear personalization controls and can choose an ad-free experience.

Design is critical in upholding these principles. We are hiring a Product Designer, Monetization to help define responsible, transparent, and user-first monetization and advertising systems for AI-native products, setting a new industry standard. This team shapes how advertising lives within ChatGPT for millions, focusing on designing systems and interactions seamlessly woven into the product—deeply contextual, highly relevant, and genuinely useful. The ambition is for these systems to feel additive, helping users discover meaningful products/services while preserving trust, clarity, and coherence.

In This Role, You Will

• Define the vision for an AI-native advertising experience for millions of users.
• Design advertising formats and interactions that feel additive to the core ChatGPT experience—relevant, contextual, and thoughtfully integrated.
• Build a new set of advertising products from the ground up in a fast-moving, zero-to-one environment.
• Partner with product, engineering, research, and policy teams to define new ads surfaces, systems, and workflows.
• Design user-facing controls for ad personalization, data usage, opt-out flows, and intuitive advertiser interfaces for responsible campaign management.
• Navigate complex tradeoffs between business needs, user trust, and long-term platform health.
• Create thoughtful artifacts to align cross-functional teams and guide execution across consumer and console experiences.
• Contribute to a design culture that values clarity, restraint, and responsibility as much as 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 a monetization and ads system prioritizing long-term value over short-term metrics.
• A deeply collaborative, mission-driven environment that takes design seriously.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products; more senior candidates welcome.
• Experience with consumer products, ads and monetization 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.

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 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.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design
• User Experience (UX)
• User Interface (UI)
• Monetization Strategy
• Advertising Systems
• Interaction Design
• Figma
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• AI-Native Products
• User-Centric Design