Design Sourcer

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.

In pursuit of this, our Recruiting team’s focus is to build talent-dense, high-impact teams that are aligned with OpenAI’s cultural values and mission. Our vision is to pioneer the future of recruiting and connect brilliant people with the transformative potential of AI.

About the Role

As a Design Sourcer at OpenAI, you will play an essential role in identifying and engaging exceptional design talent for our Product and Communications Design teams. Collaborating closely with design leaders, you’ll develop sourcing strategies and leverage industry insights to build a proactive pipeline of candidates who align with OpenAI’s mission and vision for design excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with design leadership to create sourcing strategies that attract talented designers who are inspired by OpenAI’s mission and the chance to make a meaningful impact.
• Build comprehensive talent maps and conduct research to stay ahead of market trends, helping us proactively identify strong candidates.
• Execute targeted searches and develop thoughtful, personalized outreach to connect with designers who bring the right mix of creativity, craft, and enthusiasm for OpenAI.
• Use a data-driven approach to track candidates and maintain a proactive, healthy pipeline that meets the evolving needs of our design teams.
• Cultivate long-term relationships with top design talent, identifying potential future leaders and nurturing ongoing connections.

 Our ideal candidates will have:

• 7+ years of sourcing or recruiting experience, ideally focused on product design or working with senior design leaders in a high-growth tech company.
• Demonstrated success in hiring top Product Design talent at a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup.
• Track record of delivering healthy candidate volume across a wide variety of roles, while simultaneously maintaining a high degree of responsiveness and care to each stakeholder and candidate in process.
• A passion for the research and mapping components of Sourcing; it’s a long game.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a discerning eye for high-quality product and brand design, with a deep understanding of the craft and qualities that contribute to a designer’s success.
• Are skilled in building relationships and can effectively partner with senior leaders, hiring managers, and all levels of design talent.
• Demonstrate a strategic, data-driven approach to sourcing, using insights to optimize talent pipelines and sourcing strategies.
• Are adaptable, resilient, and curious, with strong problem-solving skills.
• Communicate clearly and professionally, making it easy for stakeholders and candidates to stay informed and engaged.

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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