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

We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive strategic decisions for OpenAI across a variety of areas, including board engagements, strategic & commercial transactions, capital markets activities and partnering with OpenAI’s world-class Research organization.

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:

• Support critical corporate finance processes, including Board reporting and evolving our long-term forecasting models to support decision-making around expansion and operational strategies

• Support strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives

• Create high-quality presentations for communicating OpenAI’s financial performance

• Distill our business and cost drivers into key metrics that underpin how we communicate financial performance, allocate resources, and plan for growth

• Identify areas of opportunity across our P&L, cash flow and balance sheet

• Stay current on market trends and best-in-class financial performance benchmarks

• Working closely with our Accounting and FP&A teams to build and evolve our financial reporting as well as finance team operations

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years of progressive finance experience in investment banking, strategic consulting, private equity, or buy-side investing. Operational finance experience within a hyper growth tech company is a plus

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

• Expert financial modeling and analytical skills

• An exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights

• Excellent communication skills and storytelling ability when presenting data insights

• An understanding of business models and metrics that are relevant to OpenAI (i.e. B2B & B2C subscription and consumption models)

• Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence

• Best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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