Asset Compliance Lead, Hardware Operations

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI seeks an Asset Compliance Program Lead to establish a cross-business framework that delivers reliable lifecycle visibility over hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment. You will define controls, systems roadmaps, and evidence practices to manage assets within OpenAI’s financial-control scope.

This senior individual-contributor role partners with hardware business units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and other custodians to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in hardware operations, supply chain, asset mgmt, or risk controls.
• Experience owning or improving end-to-end asset, custody, inventory, or third‑party control processes.
• Proficient in ERP data flows and asset-management, workflow, reporting, or control systems.
• Ability to establish audit readiness through risk-based testing, reconciliations, and evidence reviews.

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, manufacturers, logistics providers, and other custodians.
• Build lifecycle reconciliations and scalable verification across internal and third-party sites, using risk-based inventories, 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 and improve stakeholder experience.
• 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

Audit readiness

Risk management

ERP systems

Stakeholder influence

Tools

SAP ERP

Oracle ERP

Job description

OpenAI seeks an Asset Compliance Program Lead to establish a cross-business framework that delivers reliable lifecycle visibility over hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment. You will define controls, systems roadmaps, and evidence practices to manage assets within OpenAI’s financial-control scope.

This senior individual-contributor role partners with hardware business units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and other custodians to