Engineering Manager, API Experience

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Applied AI

Engineering Manager to lead the API Experience team, responsible for building and crafting an exceptional development experience for API developers using OpenAI models. This includes owning API documentation, SDKs, account experience, and collaborating with research teams to bring new models to the API. The role involves managing a team of full-stack engineers, setting technical direction, and collaborating with various stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • engineering management
  • API product development
  • team leadership
  • stakeholder collaboration
  • coaching and mentoring

Nice to have

  • experience with consumer internet scale products
  • ability to work in loosely defined environments

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • Own problems end-to-end
  • move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines