OpenAI
Strategic Finance Partner, OpenAI for Inference
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About the role
- Present actionable recommendations, coordinate inputs across teams and escalate material risks or unresolved tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex financial models, forecasts, deal economics and recurring management reporting.
Responsibilities
- Own financial models, budgets, forecasts and performance reporting for priority programs, including headcount and investment tracking.
- Evaluate customer and partner economics, including engineering support, compute, tooling, licensing and contingent commitments.
- Build and maintain customer- and program-level revenue, cost of goods sold, gross margin and cash reporting with Engineering, Finance Operations and Accounting.
- Support deal negotiations and renewals with scenario analysis, proposed terms and clear financial guardrails.
- Direct finance experience supporting silicon design or semiconductor development, including ownership of development investment, program costs, pricing or commercialization models.
- Practical understanding of silicon design and validation milestones, PPA, die and manufacturing economics, and the risks that affect program value.
- You will own financial models, deal analysis, forecasts and operating reviews, working with engineering, research and commercial teams to translate technical milestones and investment needs into clear business decisions.
- You will partner with the finance leader on priorities, resource allocation and significant decisions.
Requirements
- You might thrive in this role if you have:
- Curiosity, intellectual honesty and the ability to move ambiguous work forward independently while seeking guidance on consequential decisions.
Company info
- We partner with technical and business leaders to turn advances in AI into useful products and sustainable businesses.
- Strategic Finance supports complex infrastructure programs by evaluating investment choices, commercial opportunities and operating performance.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- We are looking for a hands-on finance professional with direct experience supporting silicon design or semiconductor development programs.
Equal opportunity
- For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
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