Base Salary
$230k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale Ads Manager, the core UI platform for advertisers to create, manage, measure, and optimize campaigns.
- Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for programmatic campaign creation, management, targeting, delivery, measurement, and optimization.
- Build conversion APIs, pixels, insights, and measurement tooling for campaign performance analysis and improvement.
- Create self-serve campaign workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers.
- Build enterprise integrations for large advertisers, agencies, and external ad-tech platforms.
- Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
- Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams to translate advertiser needs into technical solutions.
- Drive 0→1 product development through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
- Contribute to technical strategy, new directions, and the advertiser platform roadmap.
- Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational practices.
- Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across advertiser-facing systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, marketplace, or ads-related systems.
- Experience architecting and delivering complex distributed systems, APIs, or advertiser-facing platforms.
- Experience building with Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, and React.
- Ability to build both intuitive UI workflows and robust backend systems for external customers.
- Strong product intuition and the ability to translate advertiser needs into reliable, scalable product experiences.
- Comfort navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term direction.
- Experience working in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.
- Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decisions grounded in user needs and long-term sustainability.
- Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
- Preferred experience with ads managers, campaign management systems, advertiser APIs, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement systems, marketplaces, or enterprise ad-tech integrations.
Benefits
- Exclusively based in the Seattle office.
- Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
Tech Stack
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.