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Strategic Finance, Workloads

OpenAI San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$234K - $260K per year

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Description

The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies.

We are hiring a senior Strategic Finance business partner to work closely with our Workloads team to drive improvements in model serving efficiency and compute economics.

You will partner directly with researchers and engineers to identify and prioritize high-impact optimization opportunities, establish frameworks to measure performance, and translate technical improvements into financial outcomes.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Inference researchers, Scaling, Product, and Data Science teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize optimization opportunities
  • Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve inference efficiency
  • Establish key performance metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks
  • Partner with Compute Finance and other Strategic Finance teams to incorporate expected inference efficiency improvements into long-term compute demand forecasts

Requirements:

  • A technical academic background or current experience partnering closely with research or engineering teams
  • 8–10+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy & operations, strategic finance, or a related analytical role
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
  • Executive presence and communication skills
  • An entrepreneurial mindset
  • Technical curiosity and enthusiasm for frontier AI and inference economics

About OpenAI: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Benefits:

  • Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
  • Relocation assistance to new employees

Salary: $234K - $260K

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