Product Manager – Core Models

OpenAI

Product Manager defining and guiding real-world applications of AI models at OpenAI. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into model requirements under a hybrid work model.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $347,000 - $490,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Translate user and product goals into clear model requirements, system architecture choices, and research priorities across query understanding, indexing, retrieval, ranking, tool boundaries, data, training, inference, and evaluation.
Build closed learning loops that turn product usage, explicit feedback, and other user signals into datasets, evaluations, experiments, training priorities, and launch decisions.
Define success across offline evaluations and online product metrics, balancing model quality, usefulness, latency, safety, reliability, and cost.
Partner closely with post-training research, applied product engineering, Model Design, and Data Science to integrate capabilities into the mainline model stack.
Create reusable platforms and operating systems for evaluation, experimentation, and signal collection so that new capabilities improve faster over time.
Use concrete product failures and emerging user needs to identify gaps, form hypotheses, and shape the next wave of research and product investment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have deep expertise in product management or closely related experience, including ownership of technically complex products or platforms.
Bring deep fluency in one or more relevant domains: search and information retrieval, recommendation or personalization systems, ML platforms, large-scale data systems, model evaluation, or AI product infrastructure.
Know how to pair offline evaluation with online experimentation and user signals, and can distinguish a useful metric from a convenient one.
Earn the trust of researchers and engineers through technical depth, crisp judgment, and a willingness to engage directly with the details.
Combine consumer product taste with systems rigor, and care about both the quality people feel and the infrastructure that makes it repeatable.
Move quickly in ambiguous environments, communicate directly, and help teams make sound decisions without waiting for perfect information.
Care deeply about how increasingly capable models affect people, and bring humility, judgment, and a strong sense of responsibility to the work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Model Requirements DefinitionSystem Architecture ChoicesData EvaluationExperimentation DesignMetric Distinction

Soft Skills

Direct CommunicationJudgmentHumilityResponsibility