Strategic Finance, Compute

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. 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. This hire will manage investments in compute and infrastructure for our industry leading AI research and products. You will be responsible for defining and driving key investment decisions, managing ongoing infrastructure costs, and ensuring we are maximizing return on our infrastructure investments. This is a cross-functional and strategic role, working closely with engineers, research scientists, and external partners. This is an individual contributor role.

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:

• Develop and maintain OpenAI’s compute roadmap, working closely with leadership, technical experts and key external partners

• Financially assess investments, build models, and make thoughtful recommendations that are ambitious but achievable 

• Lead negotiations with key vendors and partners

• Manage ongoing compute and infrastructure spend, identify areas for improvement/efficiency, and partner with stakeholders to execute on opportunities 

• Establish key compute efficiency metrics across AI research and product, and regularly monitor, analyze, and report on these metrics to drive improvement

• 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

• Collaborate with engineering, product, research, and security teams to align compute plans with internal roadmaps

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 7+ years of experience across strategic finance, business operations, venture capital, private / growth equity, private credit, investment banking, consulting, strategic finance, corporate development, strategy & operations, and/or business development

• Experience with project finance, capital project and infrastructure financial analysis, and large-scale, high dollar investment projects

• Knowledge of physical computing infrastructure: power and space, data center facilities, hardware, and networking

• 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

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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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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