Product Manager, API Agents

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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. The team is responsible for infrastructure and product layers that allow millions of developers to integrate models, fine-tune behavior, manage data, and deliver experiences. The team collaborates across product, research, and engineering to drive innovation at the model layer and translate that into value for customers.

About the Role

As the Agents Product Manager for the API team, you'll define and guide the future of how developers build agentic applications on top of OpenAI models. You will set priorities and drive improvements to model capabilities while balancing user needs, safety considerations, and technical innovation. This role is for a technically adept PM who solves 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.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand problems faced by agent builders and identify opportunities to 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 priorities into developer products and features (SDKs, APIs, and more).
• Deliver quickly while maintaining a high bar for product quality and user experience.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience collaborating directly and deeply with high-growth tech companies.
• Hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for working across diverse teams and explaining complex ideas clearly.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety and human needs, values diverse perspectives, and is an equal opportunity employer. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. OpenAI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base pay range listed for the role; total compensation may include equity and performance-related bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents) and paid medical/caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid company office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends).

Compensation

• Listed base pay range: $293,000 - $325,000 (see posting for details).