Compute Transformation Program Manager

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager, Compute Transformation to lead cross-functional initiatives spanning purchasing, operations, billing, accounting, and FP&A around compute commitments and data center programs.

You will drive problem definition, design scalable processes, and deliver end-to-end solutions across Finance, Infrastructure, Legal, Data, and Engineering. The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model requiring 3 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in project or program management, finance transformation, infrastructure operations, or enterprise systems delivery in complex, scaled environments.
• Understanding of compute or infrastructure economics and related finance processes, including commitments, usage-based billing, procurement, accruals, cost allocation, and forecasting.
• Experience partnering with software and data engineers to define requirements, resolve tradeoffs, test solutions, and deliver changes into production without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Own an integrated compute and infra transformation plan: workstreams, milestones, critical dependencies, resources, decision logs, and acceptance criteria. Drive execution from problem definition through production adoption.
• Map current workflows and design scalable processes from demand planning, contracting, delivery & acceptance, receiving & operations, invoicing, payment, and month-end close. Clarify ownership, handoffs, evidence, and exception paths.
• Enable source of truth systems that cover both operational needs and accounting/finance needs for data center construction, operations, and maintenance.
• Drive consistent tracking of contracts, tranches, delivery events, and capacity acceptance. Connect committed spend to provisioned, accepted, allocated, and used capacity to support forecasting and financial review.
• Coordinate reliable ingestion and normalization of cloud service provider usage, billing, invoice, and delivery data. Establish data owners, completeness checks, and traceability to financial outputs.
• Improve compute billing, accrual, and allocation processes through consistent pricing rules, SKU mappings, telemetry and organizational tags, reconciliations, and controlled handling of manual adjustments.
• Partner with application, AI, and data engineers to translate requirements into integrations and automation across contract, procurement, compute data, and finance platforms, with monitoring and governed change controls.
• Align Infrastructure, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Legal, and Engineering on decisions and dependencies. Manage scope, risks, vendor dependencies, and change requests; escape with clear options and business impact.
• Lead end-to-end testing, UAT, rollout, training, and handoff to operational owners. Define success measures for traceability, data quality, manual effort, exception resolution, close readiness, and adoption.

Skills

Program management

Finance transformation

Infrastructure operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Tools

SQL

Databricks

BI platforms

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager, Compute Transformation to lead cross-functional initiatives spanning purchasing, operations, billing, accounting, and FP&A around compute commitments and data center programs.

You will drive problem definition, design scalable processes, and deliver end-to-end solutions across Finance, Infrastructure, Legal, Data, and Engineering. The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model requiring 3 days in the office.