Product Manager, Private Computing & Encryption · OpenAI

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:35:06 GMT
Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco · $347K – $490K • Offers Equity · hybrid

Product Manager, Private Computing & Encryption

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Product Management

Compensation

$347K – $490K • 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 Private Computing and Encryption teams work across product, engineering, security, and safety to build advanced privacy products and infrastructure at OpenAI. Our mission is to provide world-class security features to users so their private data remains private, even from OpenAI. We use technologies like confidential computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption to ship product features across ChatGPT, the API, and our future consumer devices.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced, technical product manager to shape our privacy strategy and deliver advanced encryption-based privacy features at rapid speed across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices.

In this role, you will:

Shape the company strategy and set the industry standard on AI privacy.

Deliver novel encryption-based privacy features across ChatGPT, API, and our future consumer devices at rapid speed.

Work closely with an industry-leading team of researchers, engineers, and security experts to build core privacy technologies such as private inference and end-to-end encryption.

Work closely with our safety, integrity, and legal teams to develop novel privacy-preserving safety features and balance difficult trade-offs.

Work closely with a range of industry partners including cloud providers, GPU manufacturers, and security researchers.

Partner with leadership, marketing, and global affairs to communicate OpenAI’s privacy values with our customers, industry professionals, and policymakers.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Care deeply about user privacy and security.

Have 10+ years of product management or related industry experience.

Have prior experience in private computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption.

Lead with user empathy, a strategic mindset, and ability to balance equities across product, privacy, and safety.

Bring an entrepreneurial mindset and adaptability, whether from startup or high-growth company environments.

Demonstrate strong product intuition, making thoughtful prioritization and sequencing decisions.

Have world-class communication and collaboration skills in working with a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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.