2 months ago
Base Salary
$266k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build end-to-end purchasing experiences across frontend interactions, product APIs, and backend integrations.
- Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability using experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights.
- Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities for new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels.
- Partner with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams to identify opportunities and evaluate experiments.
- Lead initiatives from exploration and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
- Shape frontend and product API architecture with an emphasis on maintainability and reuse.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through development, design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.
Requirements
- Demonstrated Staff-level or higher technical ownership, including architecture and substantial cross-team initiatives.
- Strong experience building sophisticated web applications and the backend APIs that support them.
- Experience taking customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and ongoing iteration.
- Understanding of frontend performance, latency, interaction design, and API architecture.
- Experience using experimentation and A/B testing to determine what to build and measure impact.
- Ability to balance rapid delivery with reliable, reusable systems and communicate effectively across functions.
- Experience with e-commerce, growth, checkout, subscriptions, offers, or monetization is particularly valuable.
- Direct payments experience is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- The role is based in San Francisco and requires working in the office three days per week.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.