Product Manager, Shopping

Compensation

• $347K – $385K • 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.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team:

The Shopping team is building the future of how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products through AI. Our mission is to help users make better purchasing decisions by combining OpenAI’s models with rich product information, merchant ecosystems, and personalized experiences. We sit at the intersection of AI, commerce, search, recommendations, and consumer product experiences, partnering closely with product, engineering, research, design, and business teams to reimagine shopping for the AI era.

About the Role:

As a Product Manager on the Shopping team, you’ll define and build the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences within ChatGPT. You’ll be responsible for understanding user needs, identifying opportunities to improve product discovery and decision-making, and delivering experiences that help users confidently find and purchase the products that are right for them.

You’ll work across a broad set of domains, including search, recommendations, personalization, merchant and product ecosystems, and conversational commerce. This role requires strong product judgment, comfort operating in ambiguity, and the ability to balance user value, business objectives, and technical constraints. You’ll partner closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and cross-functional stakeholders to bring new shopping experiences from concept to scale.

This is an opportunity to help define an entirely new category at the intersection of AI and commerce, shaping how millions of users discover and buy products in the future.

This position is based in San Francisco, CA, with relocation assistance available.

In this role, you will:

• Define and drive the product vision for shopping experiences in ChatGPT.

• Partner with research teams to explore how AI can help users discover, evaluate, and confidently purchase products.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams,including design, engineering, product, and go-to-market,to build and scale AI-native shopping experiences.

• Partner with growth, GTM, marketing, and business teams to drive user adoption, merchant engagement, and ecosystem growth.

• Work with merchants, brands, retailers, and external partners to improve product quality, shopping experiences, and user outcomes while ensuring recommendations remain trustworthy and user-centric.

• Use both data and user feedback to identify opportunities, measure impact, and inform product strategy.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of product management experience with strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and communication skills.

• Bring experience in shopping, e-commerce, marketplaces, search, recommendations, consumer growth, or related product areas.

• Have built and scaled impactful consumer products serving large and diverse user bases.

• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and excited about defining a new category at the intersection of AI, commerce, and consumer experiences.

• Are motivated by OpenAI’s mission and excited to shape how millions of people discover, evaluate, and purchase products with AI.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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