# Product Designer, Identity

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $245k – $310k/yr
**Skills:** UX Design, UI Design, Interaction Design, Identity Management, Authentication, Account Recovery, Access Controls, Role-Based Access Control, Permissions, Privacy, Design Systems, Enterprise Software, Security Workflows, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads product design for identity, security, permissions, and administration across consumer and enterprise products. The role requires strong systems thinking, UX/UI and interaction design, and experience translating complex policies and access models into clear, trustworthy workflows.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the design direction for identity, account security, permissions, and administrative experiences across consumer and enterprise products.
- Design and ship experiences spanning sign-in, authentication, account recovery, device accounts, privacy, access controls, governance, and remediation.
- Define mental models and interaction patterns for human-to-agent and agent-to-agent identity, authorization, and trust.
- Help users understand what people, systems, and agents can access or do on their behalf.
- Design security checks and confirmation flows that protect sensitive actions while minimizing unnecessary friction.
- Partner with product management, engineering, security, privacy, and design peers on strategy, roadmap, and execution.
- Navigate complex roles, policies, dependencies, and product states to create scalable, coherent systems.
- Contribute to and evolve design systems and patterns used across identity experiences.

## Requirements and Qualifications
- Systems-oriented product thinking across complex states, dependencies, policies, and user types.
- Experience designing role-based access or permissions for organizations with multiple teams, resources, or levels of administration.
- Understanding of security, usability, and business tradeoffs in high-stakes workflows.
- Strong UX/UI and interaction design skills with a high bar for contemporary craft, clarity, and quality.
- Ability to translate complex technical capabilities and policies into understandable, trustworthy mental models.
- Comfort shaping direction while technology and user expectations are evolving.
- Experience with enterprise, platform, desktop, infrastructure, or similarly complex product environments.
- Interest in establishing conventions for identity and access as AI agents act on behalf of people and organizations.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $245,000–$310,000.
- This role is based at the San Francisco headquarters.
- Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

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