OpenAI
Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$207,000 to $445,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Operations
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
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- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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About the role
Technical Program Manager – Applied Product & Platform
About the Team
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 experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike.
Technical Program Managers at OpenAI play a key leadership role in scaling these efforts, partnering deeply with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to bring ambitious ideas to life and ensure clarity and discipline in execution.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive complex, large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role sits at the intersection of technical strategy and execution. You’ll be responsible for translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces and experiences from both consumer and developer perspectives, and ensuring successful delivery across web, mobile, and platform layers.
You’ll bring deep technical fluency, product sense, and a strong execution track record. You’re comfortable managing ambiguity, influencing architectural direction, advocating for developers, and leading cross-functional delivery with discipline and empathy.
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in-office)
In this role, you will:
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.
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.
Identify systemic inefficiencies and propose new tools or processes to improve product delivery and cross-team velocity.
Leverage data and AI-powered internal tooling to track progress, surface gaps, and optimize product and developer experiences.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 10–15+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in product and platform domains.
Have strong technical acumen across front-end/client technologies, API development, and scalable systems architecture.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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