Product Manager, API Agents
OpenAI
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About The Team
The OpenAI API team builds the foundation that enables every developer to harness OpenAI’s models safely, reliably, and at scale. Our mission is to make it effortless for any developer to build transformative products with OpenAI’s models. We’re responsible for the infrastructure and product layers that allow millions of developers to integrate our models, fine-tune behavior, manage data, and deliver experiences to their users. We collaborate deeply across product, research, and engineering teams to drive innovation at the model layer and then directly translate that into value for customers.
About The Role
As the Agents Product Manager for the API team, you'll be at the forefront of defining and guiding the future of how developers build agentic applications on top of our AI models. You’ll set clear priorities and drive impactful improvements to model capabilities, balancing user needs, safety considerations, and technical innovation. This role is perfect for a proactive, technically adept Product Manager, API Agents who thrives on solving challenging, ambiguous problems through structured product thinking and close collaboration with customers, engineers, and researchers.
This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available.
In This Role, You Will
- Deeply understand problems faced by agent builders and identify opportunities where our products and models can make building agents faster, more intuitive, more reliable, and more powerful.
- Define strategic priorities and roadmap for improving agentic infrastructure for API users, focusing on user outcomes and emerging capabilities.
- Partner with research and engineering teams at a technical level to translate those priorities into developer products and features (SDKs, APIs, and more).
- Deliver quickly while maintaining a high bar for product quality and user experience.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Have 5+ years of product management or related industry experience.
- Proven track record of building for developers, with strong intuition for designing clear, flexible APIs and primitives that scale from early experimentation to production use.
- Have experience collaborating directly and deeply with high-growth tech companies.
- Have hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces.
- Excel at collaborating across diverse teams and communicating complex ideas clearly.
Key skills/competency
- API Design
- Product Management
- Agentic AI
- Developer Experience
- Strategic Roadmap
- Technical Collaboration
- User Needs
- Problem Solving
- AI Models
- Infrastructure Development
How to Get Hired at OpenAI
- Research OpenAI's mission: Study their dedication to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all humanity.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight extensive product management, API design, and developer relations experience.
- Show technical depth: Emphasize experience collaborating with AI researchers and engineers on complex model capabilities.
- Prepare for ambiguity: Demonstrate structured problem-solving skills for undefined, challenging agentic AI problems.
- Exhibit user-centricity: Detail your track record of translating developer needs into successful, scalable products.
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