About this role
Professionals who excel at navigating ambiguity, structuring complex problems, and translating infrastructure costs into clear insights will find a strong fit in this position. The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team at OpenAI handles strategy and execution for the company's compute roadmap, partnering across departments to deploy resources for high-impact outcomes.
This finance generalist role supports financial and strategic work across the compute and infrastructure portfolio. Daily responsibilities involve owning financial planning, forecasting, and close processes for the company's largest cost center while partnering closely with technical, finance, accounting, tax, and deal teams to shape investments in hardware and data centers.
What you will do
- Support and scale financial planning, forecasting, close, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure.
- Build and maintain driver-based financial models for GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power to assist short and long-term planning.
- Consolidate investment analyses to create high-quality recommendations and presentations for executives and the board.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend between operating expenses and capital expenditures.
- Improve team processes, tools, and workflows while utilizing internal AI tools to automate reporting and reduce turnaround times.
- Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs that guide leadership decision-making.
What you need
- Bring seven or more years of experience in a finance and strategy operating role at a high-growth technology company.
- Demonstrate strong financial modeling skills with a focus on capacity planning, unit economics, and scenario analysis under uncertainty.
- Possess exceptional analytical, written, and verbal communication skills alongside the ability to learn quickly in unfamiliar environments.
- Show a proven track record of producing high-quality work under ambitious deadlines while independently structuring ambiguous problems.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, and business intelligence tools such as Tableau.
- Hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Background in infrastructure, data centers, compute, cloud, semiconductors, or a related industry
- Experience with planning systems like Anaplan
- Familiarity with data systems, analytical tools, and large datasets
- Technical undergraduate degree
Benefits
- Offers Equity
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What salary and equity is offered for this role?
The position includes a salary range of $234K to $260K along with offers of equity.
Where is the job located?
This role is based in San Francisco.
What tools and software will I need to use?
Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, and BI tools like Tableau is required, while experience with planning systems like Anaplan is a plus.
What kind of background is preferred for candidates?
A background in infrastructure, data centers, compute, cloud, semiconductors, or a related industry is strongly preferred along with a technical undergraduate degree.