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San Francisco, CA - $265K Full Time Posted by: OpenAI Posted: Wednesday, 28 January 2026
 
 
About the Team

Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes.

Within Strategic Finance, our team focuses on the financial performance of our B2B products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We partner with leaders across Product, GTM, Research, Partnerships, and Operations to:

  • Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management for our B2B business

  • Provide decision-quality insights on B2B product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation

  • Build the "01" financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth

About the Role

We are looking for strategic finance professionals who are deeply analytical, think strategically, and can independently drive work while partnering directly with senior B2B leaders. We\'re hiring for a number of positions across B2B Product, GTM, and Central finance. This is a unique opportunity to influence the financial trajectory of frontier AI products and initiatives, working at the intersection of strategy, finance, and technology.

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.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, strategic finance, 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 P&L s and operating models.

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

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

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

  • Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI.

  • Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn.

  • An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality and ability to deal effectively with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

  • Deep enthusiasm for the deployment of AI and OpenAI\'s mission.

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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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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Compensation Range: $265K

San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Finance
Executive
$265K
OpenAI
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