Service Designer, Support

Support Operations - San Francisco

About the Team

The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Service Designer to improve how customers get help across OpenAI’s products. As a hands-on individual contributor within User Operations, you’ll connect customer needs with the people, processes, and systems that shape their support experience.

You’ll own projects from discovery through implementation: researching customer and team needs, mapping support journeys, designing better workflows, and leading cross-functional partners through execution. Success means turning insights into changes that work in practice, and measuring whether those changes improve the experience for customers and the teams supporting them.

In this role, you will:

• Work with User Operations teams to design, execute, and report on research, identify opportunities, and drive improvement to OpenAI’s support journeys.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Support Delivery, and Operations to prioritize opportunities where research can improve product and process decisions and enhance customer experiences.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder management, influence, and communication skills by presenting your research findings and recommendations, and partnering with teams through execution.
• Own the end-to-end research and operationalization process, including meeting with stakeholders, analyzing insights, scoping projects and leading execution.
• Partner cross-functionally to map customer journeys, including product and support interactions, suggest enhancements, and lead the team through operationalizing the insights

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in service design or closely related roles, with demonstrated ownership of service improvements from research through implementation and evaluation.

• A bachelor’s degree in Service Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  Strong qualitative research and synthesis skills and the ability to combine customer insights with operational data.

• Experience designing across customer touchpoints, internal workflows, and systems, including the handoffs between teams.

• Proven experience leading ambiguous projects that span across product, engineering, and support operations teams into practical solutions.

• Clear written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions, navigate tradeoffs, and build alignment across varying levels of seniority.

• A hands-on approach and the persistence to follow work through rollout, adoption, and evaluation.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$216K – $310K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.