# Technical Accounting Lead, Ads Revenue

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $216K - $240K
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## 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 $216K - $240K per year, with additional compensation including generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave and paid medical and caregiver leave

- Flexible PTO and paid company holidays

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## About the Team

The OpenAI Finance team ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings.

## About the Role

This senior leader will own key elements of Ads revenue accounting from technical assessment through operational execution. The role will guide accounting for products, pricing, contracts, incentives, credits, refunds, and international expansion.

## Responsibilities

- Lead technical accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements

- Own and continuously evolve Ads revenue accounting policies and operating guidance

- Establish governance for new products and accounting decisions

- Translate accounting conclusions into clear requirements for product design, contracting, billing, data, estimates, close, reconciliations, controls, and reporting

- Own the operating cadence for incentive and makegood accounting, invoice readiness, accruals and reserves, settlements, reconciliations, GL tie-outs, flux analysis, reporting, and control evidence

- Partner with Ads Product, Engineering, Data, Finance Engineering, Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, Tax, Billing, and Technical Accounting on launches, enterprise negotiations, and international expansion

- Prepare concise technical memos and audit-ready support

- Use data, AI, and automation to improve research, monitoring, policy maintenance, issue tracking, documentation, and repeatable Finance workflows

## Requirements

- 10+ years of progressive experience in revenue accounting

- Demonstrated leadership to independently set direction and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders

- Experience with digital advertising, adtech, marketplaces, payments, or high-volume transaction environments

- Strong command of variable consideration, principal-versus-agent, contract modifications, incentives and credits, collectibility, estimates, and revenue presentation

- Track record building 0-to-1 accounting processes, governance, close mechanisms, reconciliations, and controls that scale

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting global launches, multiple currencies, international contracting entities, or localized billing models

- Experience applying AI or automation within Finance

- Experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Data, or Finance systems teams

- Experience developing or leading high-performing accounting teams or distributed operating groups

- Background in public-company controllership, technical accounting, audit, or similarly rigorous control environments

## Skills

### Required
- revenue accounting
- technical accounting
- financial planning
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- AI
- automation
- global launches
- multiple currencies
- international contracting

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