Software Engineer, Ads Manager

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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. The 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. The team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, and external customers to bring new monetization products into real-world systems at global scale.

About the Role

You will help build Ads Manager, the UI platform advertisers use to create, manage, measure, and optimize ad campaigns across OpenAI’s ads ecosystem. This foundational role is responsible for designing and implementing advertiser-facing products, APIs, tools, and services that connect external customers to OpenAI’s monetization products. Work spans the full stack: intuitive self-serve workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers, and scalable APIs and integrations for large enterprise advertisers, agencies, and ad-tech partners. Responsibilities include building advertiser-facing APIs and tooling for campaign management, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement, and insights, while ensuring safety, privacy, reliability, and policy alignment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Ads Manager, the core UI platform for advertisers to create, manage, measure, and optimize campaigns.
• Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools that enable programmatic campaign creation, management, targeting, delivery, measurement, and optimization.
• Build conversion APIs, pixels, insights, and measurement tooling to help advertisers understand and improve campaign performance.
• Create self-serve workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers to launch and optimize campaigns.
• Build enterprise-grade integrations for large advertisers, agencies, and external ad-tech platforms that manage and serve campaigns at scale.
• 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→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
• Contribute to technical strategy and help shape the roadmap for OpenAI’s advertiser platform.
• Maintain engineering rigor via 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 ads-related systems.
• Track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems, APIs, or advertiser-facing platforms.
• Experience building in Python / FastAPI and TypeScript / React.
• Experience building 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.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term direction.
• Experience thriving in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.
• Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decision-making rooted in 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. The company offers relocation assistance to new employees.

Benefits

• Base salary in the listed range plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA), commuter benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO (exempt) and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees; 13+ paid company holidays and additional 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) and more details provided during hiring.