# Sr Structured Finance Execution Lead **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $234K - $325K **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/3240ecb0-5f1d-4cff-9e03-f4ac36c048b3?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_519a3457-ac2 ## 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 ## Skills ### Required - structured finance - project finance - infrastructure finance - digital infrastructure finance - capital markets - financial modeling - risk allocation - transaction documentation ### Nice to have - bank training - in-house - principal - developer - infrastructure investment - specialist advisory - data centers - digital infrastructure - power - energy - infrastructure --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/3240ecb0-5f1d-4cff-9e03-f4ac36c048b3?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)