Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will drive complex product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API and related surfaces. You'll translate product vision into actionable plans, own timelines and dependencies, influence architectural decisions for public and internal APIs, and keep technical and executive stakeholders informed on program health.
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in product and platform domains
- Strong technical acumen across front-end technologies, API development and scalable systems architecture
- Delivered developer-facing tools or platforms
- Excellent program management discipline
- Product intuition
- Structured, empathetic communication
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, engineering and design to shape roadmaps and technical strategies
- Translate product vision into scalable technical execution plans
- Lead end-to-end execution of cross-functional programs
- Own timelines, milestones, dependencies and risk mitigation
- Influence architectural decisions and interface definitions for APIs
- Understand full-stack systems across client and server surfaces
- Coordinate across product, design, engineering, legal, policy and go-to-market
- Unblock teams through structured execution and communication
- Deliver updates on program health, risks and tradeoffs
- Represent developer and customer perspectives in decisions
- Propose new tools or processes to improve delivery
- Leverage data and AI-powered tooling to track progress
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
