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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Product Manager, API Model Behavior

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$325K/yr - $405K/yr

5+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Model Behavior Product Manager for the API team, you'll define and guide the future of AI model behavior, focusing on user outcomes, safety, and technical innovation, while collaborating with research and engineering teams.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define strategic priorities and roadmap for improving model behavior for API users, focusing on user outcomes, safety, reliability, and emerging capabilities

Partner with research and engineering teams at a technical level to translate those goals into model capability improvements

Partner with cross-functional teams to launch OpenAI’s frontier models in the API, and expose their full capabilities to users via flexible and powerful API primitives

Develop scalable methodologies, tools, and processes for evaluating, tuning, and iterating on model behavior

Synthesize user research, community feedback, and quantitative insights into targeted improvements in our AI models

Establish and iterate on clear, actionable metrics that accurately reflect model quality and user experience at scale

Qualification

Product ManagementAPI DesignUser ResearchCollaborationTechnical Communication

Required

5+ years of product management or related industry experience

Experience collaborating directly and deeply with high-growth startups

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

Hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces

Excel at collaborating across diverse teams and communicating complex ideas clearly

Benefits

Relocation assistance available

Reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

Founded in 2015

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1)

2024 (1)

2023 (1)

2022 (18)

2021 (10)

2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$79B

Key Investors

The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital

2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B

2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B

2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

Fidji Simo

CEO, Applications

Sam Altman

CEO & Co-Founder

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