Technical Program Manager, Applied API & ProductActive$257K–$445K

The opportunity

The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional…

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and design to shape roadmaps,: technical strategies, and long-term platform direction.

  • Translate product vision into clear, scalable technical execution plans,: balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution.

  • Lead end-to-end execution of cross-functional product and platform: programs—from planning through launch and iteration.

  • Own timelines, milestones, dependency management, risk mitigation, and accountability across teams.

  • Partner with engineering teams to influence architectural decisions and: interface definitions for public and internal APIs.

  • Understand full-stack systems across client (web, mobile) and server (API,: back-end) surfaces to ensure holistic and performant solutions.

What they're looking for

  • Serve as a central coordination point across product, design, engineering,: legal, policy, and go-to-market stakeholders.
  • Ensure alignment on priorities and unblock teams through structured execution and consistent communication.
  • Deliver crisp and clear updates to technical and executive stakeholders on: program health, risks, and tradeoffs.
  • Influence product and leadership decisions by representing developer and: customer perspectives grounded in deep context.