Description
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Strategic Finance
Compensation
- $185K – $260K • 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 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.