Engineering Manager, Monetization Product & Platform

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About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products — including next-generation ads experiences — that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses.

This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team that will build the core monetization and ads systems at OpenAI. This is a foundational role responsible for hiring, developing, and leading a world-class engineering team while shaping the technical strategy and execution for one of the company’s most impactful new initiatives.

You’ll own the roadmap for 0→1 monetization infrastructure, to build the most robust, safe, and scalable platform for creating, managing, and running ads. You will collaborate deeply with product, design, and research to define the future of monetized AI experiences — and ensure these systems uphold OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, and policy alignment.

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a diverse, high-performing engineering full-stack team
• Define and own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for OpenAI’s core monetization and ads systems. Specifically build APIs and advertiser-facing products that help them create, manage and measure their ads
• Create integrations with partners and create enterprise-class products
• Guide the architecture of products and systems that operate at massive scale and require high usability, reliability, privacy, and performance
• Collaborate with Product, Research, and Design partners to define product requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and bring new experiences to market
• Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment
• Ensure your team operates effectively, maintains high engineering rigor, and consistently delivers against ambitious goals
• Coach and mentor engineers to elevate their impact and grow to their full potential
• Build processes and culture that enable fast learning, high trust, and responsible innovation
• Ensure all monetization systems meet the highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams in fast-paced, rapidly shifting environments
• 10+ years of experience building consumer, enterprise, or ads products at large scale
• Track record of building and scaling critical products with strong usability, reliability, performance, and safety constraints
• Skilled at defining technical roadmaps, setting long-term direction, and navigating ambiguous product spaces
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and experience helping engineers achieve peak performance
• Strong product intuition and ability to work across Product, Design, and Research to shape new user experiences
• Experience thriving in 0→1 environments where strategy, architecture, and execution all need to be defined from scratch
• Clear communicator who can make decisions grounded in both user needs and long-term sustainability
• Bonus: experience collaborating in ads systems, marketplaces, or other monetization-heavy domains

Benefits & Compensation

• Compensation range: $325K - $490K (base pay may vary depending on factors including location, skills, and experience); offers equity and additional compensation components
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental and caregiver leave, paid time off, and paid company holidays
• Mental health and wellness support, life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend, daily meals in offices, relocation support for eligible employees, and other fringe benefits

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We value diverse perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer. Background checks will be administered where applicable, and reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.