Product Manager, API Agents

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Product Management

Product Manager for OpenAI's API Agents team, focusing on defining and guiding the future of agentic applications built on OpenAI's models. The role involves understanding developer needs, setting roadmap priorities, and collaborating with research and engineering to deliver developer products and features like SDKs and APIs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deeply understand problems faced by agent builders and identify opportunities where our products and models can make building agents faster, more intuitive, more reliable, and more powerful.
  2. Define strategic priorities and roadmap for improving agentic infrastructure for API users, focusing on user outcomes and emerging capabilities.
  3. Partner with research and engineering teams at a technical level to translate those priorities into developer products and features (SDKs, APIs, and more).
  4. Deliver quickly while maintaining a high bar for product quality and user experience.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of product management or related industry experience
  • Proven track record of building for developers
  • Strong intuition for designing clear, flexible APIs and primitives that scale from early experimentation to production use
  • Experience collaborating directly and deeply with high-growth tech companies
  • Hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces
  • Excel at collaborating across diverse teams and communicating complex ideas clearly

What the JD emphasized

  • building for developers
  • designing clear, flexible APIs and primitives that scale from early experimentation to production use

Other signals

  • API
  • developer products
  • agentic applications