OpenAI· Product Management· San Francisco
Product Manager, API Agents
Comp$293K – $325K
Classified Tasks (11)
Automate 0%Augment 55%Human-Only 45%
Augment (6)
AI assists, human decides
Research and document problems faced by agent builders and identify specific product and model opportunities to make building agents faster, more intuitive, more reliable, and more powerful.
analytical
Partner with research and engineering teams at a technical level to translate product priorities into developer-facing products and features (SDKs, APIs, and related tooling).
technical
Deliver product iterations and launches on accelerated timelines while ensuring measurable product quality and user experience standards are met.
operational
Collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams to convert model-layer innovation into customer-facing features and value.
communication
Design and specify clear, flexible APIs and primitives that scale from early experimentation to production use.
technical
Communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to diverse teams and stakeholders to align implementation and strategy.
communication
Human-Only (5)
Requires human judgment
Define strategic priorities and maintain a roadmap for improving agentic infrastructure for API users with a focus on measurable user outcomes and emerging capabilities.
leadership
Set priorities and drive improvements to model capabilities that balance user needs, safety considerations, and technical innovation.
leadership
Engage directly with customers and agent builders to gather feedback, validate assumptions, and inform product decisions.
communication
Drive consensus among stakeholders and coordinate cross-functional action in ambiguous problem spaces to advance product initiatives.
leadership
Guide the product strategy for developer-facing agentic applications built on OpenAI’s models and monitor progress against strategic goals.
leadership
Job description
Product Manager, API Agents | OpenAI Careers ## Product Manager, API Agents Product Management - San Francisco Apply now(opens in a new window) **About the Team:** The OpenAI API team builds the foundation that enables every developer to harness OpenAI’s models safely, reliably, and at scale. Our mission is to make it effortless for any developer to build transformative products with OpenAI’s models. We’re responsible for the infrastructure and product layers that allow millions of developers to integrate our models, fine-tune behavior, manage data, and deliver experiences to their users. We collaborate deeply across product, research, and engineering teams to drive innovation at the model layer and then directly translate that into value for customers. **About the Role:** As the Agents Product Manager for the API team, you'll be at the forefront of defining and guiding the future of how developers build agentic applications on top of our AI models. You’ll set clear priorities and drive impactful improvements to model capabilities, balancing user needs, safety considerations, and technical innovation. This role is perfect for a proactive, technically adept PM who thrives on solving challenging, ambiguous problems through structured product thinking and close collaboration with customers, engineers, and researchers. This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available. **In this role, you will:** * 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. * Define strategic priorities and roadmap for improving agentic infrastructure for API users, focusing on user outcomes and emerging capabilities. * Partner with research and engineering teams at a technical level to translate those priorities into developer products and features (SDKs, APIs, and more). * Deliver quickly while maintaining a high bar for product quality and user experience. **You might thrive in this role if you:** * Have 5+ years of product management or related industry experience. * 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. * Have experience collaborating directly and deeply with high-growth tech companies. * Have hands-on experience driving consensus and action in ambiguous spaces. * Excel at collaborating across diverse teams and communicating complex ideas clearly. **About OpenAI** OpenAI 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. We 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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background 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 crimina