Description
Compensation
$266K – $445K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (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.
About the Team
Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels.
We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize.
About the Role
We’re looking for experienced Staff+ full-stack engineers to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products.
You’ll work across web experiences, product APIs, and shared components, combining strong product judgment with technical depth. The work ranges from improving checkout conversion and performance to enabling new pricing models, offers, and ways for customers to purchase our products.
You’ll help identify opportunities, turn ambiguous goals into concrete technical plans, and lead initiatives from exploration through launch. As patterns emerge across products, you’ll develop reusable capabilities that make future launches faster and more consistent.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial ownership over architecture, implementation, and product outcomes.
This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through the product APIs and backend integrations that support them.
- Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights.
- Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities that support new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels.
- Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to identify opportunities, define experiments, and evaluate results.
- Lead initiatives from early exploration and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
- Shape frontend and product API architecture, balancing immediate delivery with maintainability and reuse across products.
- Work across engineering teams and business functions to turn complex requirements into simple, effective customer experiences.
- Provide technical leadership through hands-on development, design reviews, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Have demonstrated technical ownership at Staff level or beyond, shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.
- Have strong experience building sophisticated web applications and the backend APIs that power them.
- Have repeatedly taken customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and ongoing iteration.
- Understand how frontend performance, latency, interaction design, and API architecture affect customer experience and business outcomes.
- Combine strong product instincts with experience using experimentation and A/B testing to decide what to build and measure its impact.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping quickly and investing in reliable, reusable systems.
- Communicate clearly across functions and can move work forward without a fully defined roadmap.
- Enjoy hands-on engineering while helping other engineers develop their judgment and take on broader ownership.
Experience in e-commerce, growth, checkout, subscriptions, offers, or monetization is particularly valuable. Direct payments experience is helpful but not required.