OpenAI

Engineering Manager, Core Experimentation

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Substantial engineering leadership experience, especially with managing teams.
  • Experience in building or scaling product, experimentation, and developer tools organizations.
  • Strong product sense for translating customer workflows into platform strategies.
  • Ability to set direction across workstreams while granting team autonomy.
  • Track record in developing management talent and building effective leadership teams.
  • Capacity to interface with senior leaders in product, engineering, and research.
  • Expertise in balancing product quality with developer experience and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing product engineering organization including managers and engineers.
  • Define a multi-year strategy for experimentation, configuration, and analytics.
  • Establish ownership, operating mechanisms, and planning processes within product workstreams.
  • Collaborate with leaders across various OpenAI teams to align efforts and objectives.
  • Translate product needs into lasting platform capabilities for broader use.
  • Guide technical direction across various engineering surfaces and ensure quality standards.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex integration decisions and prioritization.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape key infrastructure impacting all OpenAI products.
  • Engagement with a cross-functional team in a dynamic, high-impact environment.
  • Chance to lead through significant organizational changes post-acquisition.
  • Potential for professional growth by building a leadership bench and elevating talent.
  • Work in a cutting-edge environment that values innovation and reliability.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager, Statsig Product to lead the product engineering organization responsible for Statsig's post-acquisition journey at OpenAI. You will define how experimentation, rollout, configuration, and analytics become a simple, reliable, and trusted part of how every OpenAI product team ships.

You will set strategy across multiple product and platform workstreams, build the organization and leadership structure needed for the next phase, and establish the operating model for a platform that serves teams across the company.

The right leader can operate across product strategy, technical architecture, organizational design, developer experience, reliability, and executive alignment. You will help preserve what made Statsig strong while integrating it deeply into how OpenAI launches, measures, learns, and makes product decisions.

In this role, you will:
  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing product engineering organization, including managers, senior technical leaders, and product-platform engineers.
  • Define the multi-year product engineering strategy for experimentation, feature flags, dynamic configuration, rollout safety, and analytics.
  • Establish clear ownership, operating mechanisms, planning processes, and execution standards across Statsig product workstreams.
  • Partner with leaders across ChatGPT, Codex, model measurement, ads, subscriptions, developer products, research, data, and infrastructure.
  • Translate recurring launch, measurement, and experimentation needs into durable platform capabilities that serve the broader company.
  • Guide technical direction across frontend, backend, SDK, data, analytics, and infrastructure surfaces.
  • Balance rapid adoption with reliability, performance, correctness, usability, and safety.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex product-platform tradeoffs, integration decisions, and cross-company prioritization.
  • Build a strong leadership bench and create an organization that can scale as Statsig becomes core infrastructure for OpenAI product development.
You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have substantial engineering leadership experience, including leading managers or multiple engineering teams.
  • Have built or scaled product, experimentation, analytics, developer tools, growth platform, or internal platform organizations.
  • Bring strong product sense and can turn ambiguous customer workflows into durable platform strategy.
  • Can set direction across multiple workstreams while giving teams clear ownership and autonomy.
  • Have a track record of building strong leadership teams, hiring senior talent, and developing managers.
  • Can operate credibly with senior product, engineering, research, data, and infrastructure leaders.
  • Understand how to balance product quality, developer experience, reliability, performance, and adoption.
  • Are comfortable leading through high ambiguity, organizational change, and post-acquisition integration.
  • Want to shape one of the highest-leverage product platforms inside OpenAI.
Success in this role looks like:
  • A strong Statsig Product Engineering organization is built with clear leadership, ownership, priorities, and execution mechanisms.
  • Statsig has a coherent product and engineering strategy that serves teams across OpenAI.
  • Product teams can launch progressively, measure clearly, and make faster, higher-confidence decisions.
  • The platform becomes more reliable, easier to use, and more valuable as adoption scales.
  • Senior cross-functional partners trust the organization to turn company-wide needs into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Statsig becomes a core part of how OpenAI ships safely, learns quickly, and improves products at scale.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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2015

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