Product Designer, Monetization

About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products—including next-generation ads experiences—that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.

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. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses.

This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale.

About the Role

Our approach is grounded in a few core principles:

• Mission alignment: Advertising must support OpenAI’s mission and long-term benefit to users.

• Answer independence: Ads never influence the answers ChatGPT provides. Helpful, accurate responses always come first.

• Conversation privacy: User conversations are private. We do not sell user data or share conversations with advertisers.

• Long-term value: We prioritize trust and experience over time spent or short-term optimization.

• Choice and control: Users have clear controls over personalization and can always choose an ad-free experience.

Design plays a critical role in upholding these principles. We’re hiring a product designer to help define what responsible, transparent, and user-first monetization and advertising systems look like in an AI-native product and setting a new standard for the industry.

This team shapes how advertising lives within the ChatGPT experience for millions of users. The work focuses on designing systems and interactions that are seamlessly woven into the product—deeply contextual, highly relevant, and genuinely useful. The ambition is for these systems to feel additive rather than intrusive, helping users discover meaningful products and services while preserving trust, clarity, and coherence.

In this role, you will:

• Define the vision for what an AI-native advertising experience should be 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 from the ground up.

• Design user-facing controls for ad personalization, data usage, and opt-out flows, as well as 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 help align cross-functional teams and guide execution across both 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 of people experience trust, privacy, and control in AI products.

• The chance to shape a monetization and ads system that prioritizes long-term value over short-term metrics.

• A deeply collaborative, mission-driven environment that takes design seriously.

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