{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ec788c2e05fd4d708511e85f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ec788c2e05fd4d708511e85f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ec788c2e05fd4d708511e85f","title":"Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product","description":"Technical Program Manager – Applied Product & PlatformAbout the TeamThe Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike.\r\nTechnical Program Managers at OpenAI play a key leadership role in scaling these efforts, partnering deeply with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to bring ambitious ideas to life and ensure clarity and discipline in execution.\r\nAbout the RoleWe’re seeking aTechnical Program Managerto drive complex, large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role sits at the intersection of technical strategy and execution. You’ll be responsible for translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces and experiences from both consumer and developer perspectives, and ensuring successful delivery across web, mobile, and platform layers.\r\nYou’ll bring deep technical fluency, product sense, and a strong execution track record. You’re comfortable managing ambiguity, influencing architectural direction, advocating for developers, and leading cross-functional delivery with discipline and empathy.\r\nLocation:San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - 3 days/week in-office)\r\nIn this role, you will:Collaborate with product, engineering, and design to shape roadmaps, technical strategies, and long-term platform direction.\r\nTranslate product vision into clear, scalable technical execution plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution.\r\nLead end-to-end execution of cross-functional product and platform programs—from planning through launch and iteration.\r\nOwn timelines, milestones, dependency management, risk mitigation, and accountability across teams.\r\nPartner with engineering teams to influence architectural decisions and interface definitions for public and internal APIs.\r\nUnderstand full-stack systems across client (web, mobile) and server (API, back-end) surfaces to ensure holistic and performant solutions.\r\nServe as a central coordination point across product, design, engineering, legal, policy, and go-to-market stakeholders.\r\nEnsure alignment on priorities and unblock teams through structured execution and consistent communication.\r\nDeliver crisp and clear updates to technical and executive stakeholders on program health, risks, and tradeoffs.\r\nInfluence product and leadership decisions by representing developer and customer perspectives grounded in deep context.\r\nIdentify systemic inefficiencies and propose new tools or processes to improve product delivery and cross-team velocity.\r\nLeverage data and AI-powered internal tooling to track progress, surface gaps, and optimize product and developer experiences.\r\nYou might thrive in this role if you:Have 10-15+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in product and platform domains.\r\nHave strong technical acumen across front-end/client technologies, API development, and scalable systems architecture.\r\nHave successfully delivered developer-facing tools or platforms and can advocate for the end-user and developer experience.\r\nBring excellent program management discipline—comfortable managing multiple concurrent efforts, leading complex execution, and bringing clarity to ambiguity.\r\nDemonstrate product intuition and can connect user needs to technical tradeoffs and platform decisions.\r\nAre a highly structured and empathetic communicator who fosters alignment and moves cross-functional teams forward.\r\nAre curious, hands-on, and thrive in a fast-moving environment with high trust and high standards.\r\nAbout OpenAI\r\nOpenAI 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. 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.\r\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\r\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s ...Policy Statement.\r\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\r\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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