Compute Transformation Program Manager (Hybrid SF)

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager, Compute Transformation, to lead cross-functional initiatives across compute commitments and data center initiatives.

This hands-on IC will define problems, design processes, plan end-to-end delivery, and partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Data, and Engineering. You will drive ownership of integrated plans, track dependencies, and ensure reliable, auditable financial operations while guiding governance, testing, rollout, and adoption across teams in

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.
• A strong process mindset and the ability to connect contractual terms, operational events, financial data, and control requirements into a practical future-state design.
• Fluency in data dependencies, system integrations, reconciliation, and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Own an integrated compute and infra transformation plan: workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, decision logs, and acceptance criteria.
• Map current workflows and design scalable processes from demand planning through month-end close.
• Enable source of truth systems for data center construction, operations, and maintenance.
• Drive tracking of contracts, tranches, delivery events, and capacity to support forecasting and reviews.
• Coordinate ingestion and normalization of cloud usage, billing, and delivery data with data owners and traceability to financial outputs.
• Improve compute billing, accrual, and allocation processes through standardized pricing rules and reconciliations.
• Partner with engineering to translate requirements into integrations across contract, procurement, compute data, and finance platforms.
• Align multiple teams on decisions, scope, risks, and change requests with clear options and impact.
• Lead end-to-end testing, UAT, rollout, and handoff with success measures for data quality and adoption.

Skills

Project management

Finance transformation

Infrastructure operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Tools

SQL

Databricks

BI platforms

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Program Manager, Compute Transformation, to lead cross-functional initiatives across compute commitments and data center initiatives.

This hands-on IC will define problems, design processes, plan end-to-end delivery, and partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Data, and Engineering. You will drive ownership of integrated plans, track dependencies, and ensure reliable, auditable financial operations while guiding governance, testing, rollout, and adoption across teams in