Director of Product Finance, Foundations

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team delivers critical financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI’s long-term goals. We work cross-functionally to ensure capital is deployed efficiently and aligned to our highest-impact initiatives.

The Product Strategic Finance team focuses on managing the financial performance of our products. We ensure alignment between financial goals and product strategy through rigorous revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, and unit economics analysis. This team also provides hands-on support and leadership to drive analytical depth and execution excellence.

About the Role

We are hiring a Director of Product Finance, Foundations to help drive strategic decision making across our product org. This individual will play a critical role in shaping our financial strategy and ensuring the scalability and profitability of our products. You will also manage a small team, providing mentorship and leadership while remaining hands-on with analysis and execution.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. 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:

• Lead and mentor a small, high-performing finance team while remaining hands-on in strategic and analytical work.

• Own the consolidated product revenue and gross margin forecasting model, working closely with Product and GTM finance teams. You will be responsible for contribution and gross margin forecasting and performance management across all products.

• Deliver monthly updates to leadership on revenue and margin performance, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities versus forecasts.

• Develop frameworks to evaluate product ROI and build automated product P&Ls to surface contribution margin insights, expense drivers, and performance trends.

• Drive margin optimizations by collaborating with Compute, Engineering, and Operations teams to better understand costs and improve cost efficiency, including close collaboration with Payments and Fraud teams.

• Lead centralized compute demand planning to align infrastructure usage with business growth.

• Drive headcount and OpEx planning for the Applied Product, Engineering, and Design organizations.

• Collaborate with Accounting and FP&A to improve forecasting and reporting processes.

• Stay informed on market dynamics to help guide financial strategy.

• Create high-quality materials for executive and Board-level presentations.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 12+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing coupled with operational experience at a fast-paced, scaling company.

• A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.

• Expert modeling skills, including building detailed product P&Ls and operating models.

• The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively communicate with leadership.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to craft compelling narratives using data.

• Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy in financial reporting and analysis.

• Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI.

• Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.

• Experience with SQL.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the financial trajectory of cutting-edge AI products while working at the intersection of strategy, finance, and technology. If you’re passionate about driving growth and optimizing product performance, we’d love to hear from you!

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. 

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