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10 OpenAI designers
These ten current and former OpenAI designers have held product design and design staff roles at the company. A reader can learn what design work at OpenAI involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Garrett Olinger
LinkedInExperience: Product Designer · OpenAI
Product Designer at OpenAI since August 2024, in the Design department. He was a Product Designer at Humane (2023–2024), a Senior Staff Product Designer at Coinbase (2022–2023) and a Designer at Apple (2021–2022), and earlier held a Specialist role at Apple.
Ian Bach
LinkedInExperience: Member of Design Staff · OpenAI
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI since December 2025. He was Principal Product Designer - Superintelligence Labs at Meta (2024–2025), Principal Product Designer at Cash App (2023–2024) and Director Of Product Design at Spotify (2015–2022), and founded Universal Basic.
Ian Silber
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product Design · OpenAI
Head of Product Design at OpenAI since August 2023, a role listed in the Design department at head level. He was a Product Designer at Global Illumination, Inc (2022–2023) and Artifact (2021–2022), and at Instagram he was Director of Product Design (2018–2021) and Product Designer (2013–2018).
Jesse Chand
LinkedInExperience: Product Designer · OpenAI
Product Designer at OpenAI since March 2025, in the Design department; the profile mentions Swift, animations and interactions. The profile also lists Human Interface Designer at Apple (2020–2025), Founder of Eleventh (2018–2020) and Product Designer at Snap Inc. (2016–2017).
Joey Flynn
LinkedInExperience: Product Designer · OpenAI
Product Designer at OpenAI since August 2023, in the Design department. He was Co-Founder and CPO of Global Illumination, Inc from 2021 to 2023, a Designer at Instagram from 2018 to 2019 and a Product Designer at Quip from 2017 to 2018, and co-founded Unity&Variety (2015–2017).
Karolis Kosas
LinkedInExperience: Member of Design Staff · OpenAI
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI since August 2023, with the headline Product designer @ OpenAI. He was a Staff Product Designer at Stripe from 2018 to 2023, Creative Director at YPlan from 2015 to 2017 and a Product Designer at MUBI from 2014 to 2015, and co-founded the ANCHOVY clothing label.
Micah Sivitz
LinkedInExperience: Member of Design Staff · OpenAI
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI since December 2024; his role description says he is leading design for B2B products and platform. He was Design Pillar Lead, AI at Figma (2023–2024), Director of Product Design at Asana (2021–2023), and Product Design Manager (2018–2021) and Product Designer (2017–2018) at Dropbox.
Pablo Boerr
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Product Designer · OpenAI
Senior Staff Product Designer at OpenAI from September 2025 to September 2026, based in Montreal. He was a Staff Product Designer (2022–2025) and Senior Product Designer Commerce Intelligence (2019–2022) at Shopify, and Lead Product Designer & Front End Developer at Bus.com (2017–2019).
Tarek Younes
LinkedInExperience: Product Designer · OpenAI
Product Designer at OpenAI since April 2025; his role description says he designed and shipped Sora 2. He was a Product Designer at Instagram from 2023 to 2025 and at Meta from 2021 to 2023, and describes himself as a product designer focused on connecting people through digital experiences.
Thalia Echevarria Fiol
LinkedInExperience: Product Designer · OpenAI
Product Designer at OpenAI since October 2025, with the headline Icon Designer at OpenAI; she describes a specialty in icon design and typeface design and a focus on intuitive user interfaces. She was a Human Interface Designer at Apple from 2015 to 2025.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's design focus to your question, since consumer apps, enterprise and platform products, and visual craft such as icons each call for different skills. Look at where they designed before OpenAI and whether they are still there, because that shapes how they compare designing AI products with other software.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you design an interface when the model's output is unpredictable?
- 02How do designers and engineers prototype AI features before the model is ready?
- 03What design skills mattered most when moving from a consumer app company to an AI company?
Reaching OpenAI designers
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How much does it cost to reach OpenAI designers?
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Can an AI agent ask one of these OpenAI designers a question?
Yes. An agent with a USDC wallet on Base can ask one question without an Instant Expert account. It names the person, for example by the LinkedIn URL on this page, and pays per ask over x402 (HTTP 402). The person answers in writing or by voice note, and if nobody answers within 7 days, the payment goes back to the wallet automatically. x402 docs
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