Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $234K – $325K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, 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
- 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
About the Team
The Capital Markets team develops the financing strategy, solutions, and partnerships needed to support OpenAI's expanding global AI infrastructure platform and long-term investment plans.
About the Role
We're looking for a senior structured finance leader to create immediate execution leverage for a growing capital markets function. In this role, you'll take broad financing objectives and independently turn them into well-run transaction processes. You'll lead complex financings from strategy through close, manage counterparties and advisors, and bring sound judgment to capital structure, risk allocation, process design, and execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex financing processes from initial structuring through diligence, negotiation, documentation, and closing
- Translate broad capital-raising objectives into executable financing plans, timelines, work streams, and counterparty strategies
- Manage lenders, investors, advisors, counsel, and internal stakeholders across high-stakes transactions
- Provide oversight on financial structuring, modeling, diligence, risk allocation, and transaction documentation
- Make clear recommendations on financing strategy, counterparty selection, process design, and tradeoffs
- Operate effectively in a small, high-impact team without relying on a large analyst or associate bench
- Help build repeatable internal processes for a financing function that is still scaling
- Coach and develop more junior transaction professionals
Requirements
- 8-15 years of experience executing structured finance, project finance, infrastructure finance, digital infrastructure finance, or other capital-intensive transactions
- Personally led multiple complex or large-scale financings through close, with the ability to explain your individual role and decisions in detail
- Experience across the full transaction lifecycle, including structuring, modeling oversight, lender or investor engagement, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing
- Strong judgment across capital structure, counterparties, risk allocation, and financing process design
- Bank training, ideally followed by a successful move into an in-house, principal, developer, infrastructure investment, or specialist advisory environment
- Exposure to data centers, digital infrastructure, power, energy, infrastructure, or similarly capital-intensive sectors
- Experience building financing processes or functions, rather than only operating within a mature platform
- A track record of managing, coaching, or developing junior transaction professionals
- Comfort operating in a low-hierarchy, high-ambiguity environment where senior leaders are expected to stay close to execution
- Willingness to relocate to or work consistently from San Francisco