Engineering Manager, API Experience jobs in United States
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OpenAI · 15 hours ago

Engineering Manager, API Experience

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their API Experience team, focusing on enhancing the development experience for API developers through robust documentation and tools.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Manage and build out a diverse team of high performing full-stack engineers
Build an API product that developers love to use
Set technical direction for building robust and scalable API products for end developers
Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineering teams
Coach and nurture engineers to accelerate their growth and learning

Qualification

API product developmentEngineering managementFull-stack engineeringScalable systemsDiversityInclusionCoachingProblem ownershipCollaborationAdaptability

Required

8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years of experience in engineering management
Prior experience building out external facing API products at consumer internet scale
Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable products and systems
Care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and have a track record of building inclusive teams
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Have the ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

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

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

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Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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