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Product Manager, Core Models

OpenAI· Product Management
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$347k - $490k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Product Manager for the Core Models team at OpenAI, focused on defining and guiding how AI models work in real-world applications, spanning research, infrastructure, and consumer product surfaces with hybrid remote work in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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

  • 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
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • 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
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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