Strategic Finance, Compute

About the Team

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.

About the Role

Compute is a key lever for OpenAI and AI progress. We are seeking a Strategic Finance Compute Lead to provide finance leadership for our compute and infrastructure spend and play a significant role in shaping our long-term compute strategy. You will play a critical role developing financial models for all areas of compute, analyzing spend patterns, and providing critical insights to optimize and plan for our future compute needs. This role will be a key partner to our scaling and supercomputing engineering teams providing financial expertise and guidance to optimize our capacity investments and drive strategic decision-making, while collaborating with other members of the finance organization to align our compute strategy with broader financial considerations.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Own and develop financial models across different elements of compute (GPUs, CPUs, storage and networking)

• Lead strategic financial analysis for long-term capacity initiatives, working closely with scaling and supercomputing engineering teams

• Maintain deep expertise on compute contract terms, pricing structures and optimization opportunities

• Serve as a partner to FP&A and strategic finance teams, aligning compute and infrastructure with broader financial and business strategies

• Create high-quality Exec and Board-facing presentations

• Stay abreast of market trends and competitive dynamics to inform and improve our infrastructure strategy

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience across strategic finance, private / growth equity, investment banking, strategy & operations, and/or business development with 3+ years of finance operating experience at a high-growth technology company

• Experience partnering with engineering and product teams to provide financial analysis and insights to critical strategic decisions

• Good understanding of cloud technology and compute infrastructure

• Exceptionally strong analytical, financial modeling, and written and oral communication skills

• Demonstrated track record of thoughtful investment decisions

• Experience driving operational outcomes under ambitious deadlines

• Exceptionally strong relationship building, business judgment, and communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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