Full-Time

Product Manager – Self-Serve Business Growth Lead

Updated on 5/26/2026

OpenAI

OpenAI

5,001-10,000 employees

Develops safe AI models and tools

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Product
Required Skills
Data Science
Product Management
Requirements
  • Have led product-led growth initiatives for B2B, SaaS, developer, or business-facing products
  • Have experience building growth loops, activation flows, team adoption experiences, monetization paths, or expansion motions
  • Have worked on team-based, workspace, collaboration, developer, or multi-user products
  • Are comfortable owning business outcomes even when execution depends on multiple teams and product surfaces
  • Are highly analytical and can translate customer behavior, product data, and business goals into a focused product strategy
  • Are strong at cross-functional influence, strategic alignment, and executive communication
  • Have operated at significant scale, such as large user bases, meaningful revenue responsibility, or high-growth product lines
  • Experience in PLG, B2B SaaS, self-serve growth, monetization, lifecycle growth, or developer products
  • Experience with team-based, workspace, collaboration, or developer-facing products
  • Experience partnering with Sales, Revenue, or Go-To-Market teams on handoff, upsell, or expansion motions
Responsibilities
  • Define the end-to-end product strategy for self-serve business growth across acquisition, conversion, activation, retention, expansion, and monetization
  • Identify and prioritize the highest-impact product opportunities that improve team adoption, usage, retention, and expansion across self-serve business products
  • Develop growth motions that help teams building with OpenAI get to value faster and expand their usage over time
  • Partner with core product teams to shape roadmap priorities and ensure growth opportunities are embedded across the product experience
  • Own self-serve business growth goals, metrics, and executive-level narratives, including progress, insights, tradeoffs, and investment needs
  • Work closely with Sales and Go-To-Market teams to design seamless handoff, upsell, and expansion motions between self-serve and Enterprise tiers
  • Use customer insights, product analytics, experimentation, and business data to inform strategy and measure impact
  • Influence cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Sales, Marketing, and Operations
  • Help build and mentor a growing team of PMs as the self-serve growth function scales
Desired Qualifications
  • Have led product-led growth initiatives for B2B, SaaS, developer, or business-facing products
  • Have experience building growth loops, activation flows, team adoption experiences, monetization paths, or expansion motions
  • Have worked on team-based, workspace, collaboration, developer, or multi-user products
  • Are comfortable owning business outcomes even when execution depends on multiple teams and product surfaces
  • Are highly analytical and can translate customer behavior, product data, and business goals into a focused product strategy
  • Are strong at cross-functional influence, strategic alignment, and executive communication
  • Have operated at significant scale, such as large user bases, meaningful revenue responsibility, or high-growth product lines
  • Experience in PLG, B2B SaaS, self-serve growth, monetization, lifecycle growth, or developer products
  • Experience with team-based, workspace, collaboration, or developer-facing products
  • Experience partnering with Sales, Revenue, or Go-To-Market teams on handoff, upsell, or expansion motions

OpenAI conducts AI research and deployment to build advanced AI models and tools that help people automate tasks, be more creative, and make better decisions. Its products include ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can write, code, tutor, and assist in interactive tasks, and Sora, which can generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI’s models typically run through cloud-based services and subscriptions, with licensing and partnerships for broader use. The company operates a capped-profit model to balance generating revenue with ensuring safety, ethics, and long-term societal benefits. Its approach emphasizes safety, responsible deployment, and collaboration with researchers, governments, and institutions. The goal is to ensure artificial general intelligence, when it arrives, benefits all of humanity and minimizes risks.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$196B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Colin Fleming’s hire strengthens enterprise marketing and boardroom-ready positioning.
  • Singapore Applied AI Lab expands regional deployment across public services and regulated industries.
  • Codex adoption is accelerating in Asia Pacific, especially among startups and enterprises.

What critics are saying

  • Google and Microsoft control discovery and distribution layers that OpenAI depends on.
  • OpenAI’s enterprise deals face skepticism from universities and conservative procurement teams.
  • Cloud-commitment economics remain fragile if revenue growth slows or financing tightens.

What makes OpenAI unique

  • OpenAI pairs frontier model research with consumer products like ChatGPT and Sora.
  • Its capped-profit structure prioritizes broad access and safety over pure shareholder maximization.
  • The company is shifting toward enterprise agents, customized models, and deployment services.

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Benefits

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care

Mental healthcare service

Fertility treatment coverage

401(k) with generous matching

20-week paid parental leave

Life insurance (complimentary)

AD&D insurance (complimentary)

Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)

Optional buy-up life insurance

Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)

Annual learning & development stipend

Regular team happy hours and outings

Daily catered lunch and dinner

Travel to domestic conferences

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

2%
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