Inside OpenAI's GTM Innovation lab: we're the bridge between bleeding‑edge AI and the folks who sell it. Think startup energy with research lab superpowers.
Your canvas: build tools that let our sales teams demo AI's magic in ways that click. You'll code in Python or JavaScript, ship fast, learn faster.
Daily rhythm: sit with sales teams, spot their friction points, prototype solutions with our API, then scale what works. No red tape, just rapid builds and real impact.
Who fits: 4+ years building user‑facing stuff, comfortable with full‑stack, already played with LLMs, and hungry to shape how the world meets AI.
The nuts & bolts: NYC‑based, 3 days in office, $220‑280k, relocation covered. We're building the future of AI—come help us show it to the world.
About The Team
The GTM (Go-To-Market) Innovation team is an internal powerhouse revolutionizing how we engage customers through groundbreaking applications of our technology. As an incubator, we amplify the impact of Sales, Technical Success, Enablement, and Revenue Operations by deploying our technology at scale. This team applies advanced capabilities to real-world interactions — reshaping conversations with customers, learning from every exchange, and finding novel ways to show the value of our technology.
About The Role
As a product engineer on the GTM Innovation team, you’ll help OpenAI meet the world at scale. You’ll partner closely with go-to-market teams to understand their workflows, identify leverage points, and ship novel solutions using OpenAI’s API platform. You’ll move quickly from prototype to production, and your work will directly shape how customers experience our technology in the field. This role is ideal for engineers who want to be close to users, own end-to-end outcomes, and help define entirely new categories of enterprise software.
This role is based in New York City. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In This Role, You Will
Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market effortsWork across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintainEmbed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for themApply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problemsTranslate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development
You’ll Thrive In This Role If You
Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systemsAre fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full-stack applicationsHave built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownershipEnjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 productsAre collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of 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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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Compensation Range: $220K - $280K
OpenAI
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