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Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Francisco

Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

$266k to $445k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Francisco

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Not mentioned in the advert

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.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid" and three days per week in the office

What Nomaders makes of it

Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.”

Written as a nice-to-have

“Direct payments experience is helpful but not required.”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

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The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.

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About the role

About the Team

Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels.

We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize.

About the Role

We’re looking for experienced Staff+ full-stack engineers to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products.

You’ll work across web experiences, product APIs, and shared components, combining strong product judgment with technical depth. The work ranges from improving checkout conversion and performance to enabling new pricing models, offers, and ways for customers to purchase our products.

You’ll help identify opportunities, turn ambiguous goals into concrete technical plans, and lead initiatives from exploration through launch. As patterns emerge across products, you’ll develop reusable capabilities that make future launches faster and more consistent.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial ownership over architecture, implementation, and product outcomes.

This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office.

In this role, you will:

Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through the product APIs and backend integrations that support them.

Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights.

Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities that support new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels.

Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to identify opportunities, define experiments, and evaluate results.

Lead initiatives from early exploration and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.

Shape frontend and product API architecture, balancing immediate delivery with maintainability and reuse across products.

Work across engineering teams and business functions to turn complex requirements into simple, effective customer experiences.

Provide technical leadership through hands-on development, design reviews, and mentorship.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Have demonstrated technical ownership at Staff level or beyond, shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.

Have strong experience building sophisticated web applications and the backend APIs that power them.

Have repeatedly taken customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and ongoing iteration.

Understand how frontend performance, latency, interaction design, and API architecture affect customer experience and business outcomes.

Combine strong product instincts with experience using experimentation and A/B testing to decide what to build and measure its impact.

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 17d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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