Product Manager, API Infrastructure

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Product Manager to define and scale data processing, privacy, billing, and access controls products. The role involves setting strategy, expanding regional data processing capabilities, and building APIs to simplify spend management, with a focus on secure, private, enterprise-grade controls.

The role collaborates with engineering, security, legal, compliance, finance, and leadership, and is based in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid in-office requirement.

Qualifications

• Experienced Product Manager for data processing, data privacy, billing and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy and execute on projects like expanding regional data processing footprint.
• Enable new inference caching controls in the API.
• Build APIs that help organizations manage their spend limits.
• Define and ship foundational capabilities for secure, private, enterprise-grade controls.
• Partner with engineering, security, legal, compliance, finance and leadership to deliver high-trust systems.

Skills

Data privacy

APIs

Product management

Job description

About the Team:

The OpenAI API team builds the foundation that enables every developer to harness OpenAI’s models safely, reliably, and at scale. We design and operate the systems that power model serving, API access, billing, developer tooling, and enterprise integrations—forming the connective tissue between OpenAI’s research breakthroughs and real-world products. Our mission is to make it effortless for anyone to build with OpenAI technology. We’re responsible for the infrastructure and product layers that allow millions of developers to integrate GPT models, fine-tune behavior, manage data, and deliver transformative experiences to their users. We collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams to ensure that innovation in model capabilities translates directly into value for customers. The API team spans multiple disciplines, including product management, infrastructure engineering, developer experience, and data systems. We care deeply about reliability, scalability, and simplicity—creating tools that let developers focus on their ideas while we handle the complexity of running world-class AI systems.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to define and scale the construction of our data processing, data privacy, billing, and access controls products. You will set strategy and execute on projects like expanding our regional data processing footprint, enabling new inference caching controls in the API or building APIs that make it easier for organizations to manage their spend limits. You will also define the strategy and ship foundational capabilities that ensure customers use OpenAI products securely, privately, and with enterprise-grade controls. This role partners deeply with engineering, security, legal, compliance, finance and leadership to deliver high-trust, enterprise-grade systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to n