Software Engineer, Ads Manager

Details

The Monetization team is a cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation advertising experiences. The team operates in a greenfield environment and partners with internal teams and external customers to bring monetization products to global scale.

The role focuses on building Ads Manager, the UI platform advertisers use to create, manage, measure, and optimize ad campaigns across OpenAI's ads ecosystem. You will work across the full technical stack to build self-serve workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers, as well as scalable APIs and integrations for enterprise advertisers, agencies, and ad-tech partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Ads Manager, the core UI platform for advertisers.
• Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for campaign creation, management, targeting, delivery, measurement, and optimization.
• Build conversion APIs, pixels, insights, and measurement tooling.
• Create self-serve workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers.
• Build enterprise-grade integrations for advertisers, agencies, and external ad-tech platforms.
• Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
• Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams to translate advertiser needs into technical solutions.
• Drive 0-to-1 product development through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
• Contribute to technical strategy and the advertiser platform roadmap.
• Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
• Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across advertiser-facing systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, marketplace, or advertising-related systems.
• Experience architecting and delivering complex distributed systems, APIs, or advertiser-facing platforms.
• Experience with Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, and React.
• Ability to build both intuitive UI workflows and robust backend systems for external customers.
• Strong product intuition and the ability to translate advertiser needs into clear, reliable, and scalable product experiences.
• Comfort navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps.
• Experience working in 0-to-1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.
• Clear communication, holistic thinking, and sound decision-making based on user needs and long-term sustainability.
• Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
• Bonus experience with ads managers, campaign management systems, advertiser APIs, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement systems, marketplaces, or enterprise ad-tech integrations.

Location

This role is exclusively based in the Seattle office. Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and competitive benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts and commuter benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

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