Asset Compliance Lead – Hardware Operations

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Asset Compliance Program Lead in Central Procurement – Hardware Operations to establish a cross-business framework ensuring reliable lifecycle visibility of hardware assets and capital equipment. You will define controls, systems roadmap, and evidence practices within OpenAI’s financial-control scope.

You will partner with hardware units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and third-party custodians to deploy practical operating

Qualifications

• 8+ years in hardware operations, supply chain, manufacturing, asset management, procurement operations, audit, risk and controls.
• Experience owning or improving end-to-end asset, custody, inventory, or third-party control processes.
• Fluency with ERP data flows among procurement, POs, invoices, receiving, inventory, asset records, and the GL.
• Experience establishing audit readiness through risk-based testing, reconciliations, evidence reviews, and remediation.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and third parties without formal authority.
• AI to improve analysis, documentation, or workflow design while protecting data.
• Turning complex operations into practical standards, clear ownership, and scalable routines.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale the end-to-end asset-compliance operating model across acquisition and capitalization, custody and location tracking, transfers, lifecycle events, inventory and verification, impairment or retirement, and audit-evidence retention.
• Define the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap, connecting requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory data, physical custody, transfers, and financial records.
• Establish clear ownership and control points across OpenAI teams, suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics providers, and other custodians.
• Build lifecycle reconciliations and a scalable verification model across multiple sites, using risk-based inventories, sample testing, attestations, and corrective-action tracking.
• Establish an initial baseline of asset exposure and control gaps, then prioritize remediation based on financial, operational, custody, and reporting risk.
• Identify recurring issues and use process, system, workflow, automation, and AI-enabled improvements to prevent repeat problems.
• Shape policy, standards, and governance improvements by bringing operational evidence and risk findings to decision-makers.
• Define executive reporting on asset completeness, control performance, audit readiness, remediation progress, and emerging risks.

Skills

Asset management

Risk management

Audit/compliance

Control environment

ERP systems

Data governance

Stakeholder influence

AI-enabled workflows

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Asset Compliance Program Lead in Central Procurement – Hardware Operations to establish a cross-business framework ensuring reliable lifecycle visibility of hardware assets and capital equipment. You will define controls, systems roadmap, and evidence practices within OpenAI’s financial-control scope.

You will partner with hardware units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and third-party custodians to deploy practical operating