Strategic Finance Leader
4 weeks ago
The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to manage investments in compute and infrastructure for our industry-leading AI research and products. As a key member of our team, 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.
Key Responsibilities- 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.
- 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.
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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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