Marketing Operations & Budget Lead for AI

OpenAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Business Operations Manager within Business Marketing.

You will own the operating rhythm for budget administration across allocations, forecasts, POs, and invoices, partnering with marketing leaders, Strategic Finance, Procurement, Data Science, agencies, and regional teams to plan and pace spend, manage commitments, answer urgent questions, and translate investment data into clear actions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in business operations, strategic finance, FP&A, marketing operations, or a related quantitative role in a fast-moving, matrixed organization.
• Strong hands-on experience with budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, commitments, accruals, invoices, and reconciliation.
• Excellent analytical skills and curiosity: digging into data and telling the business story.
• Understanding of purchasing, contracts, agencies, vendors, and operational details for spend management.
• Ability to communicate clearly and align across marketing functions, regions, and shared services without formal authority.
• AI-native builder mindset: automating repetitive tasks to improve speed and usefulness.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day budget administration across allocations, forecasts, commitments, purchase requests, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, actuals, and reconciliation.
• Partner with Business Marketing leadership and Strategic Finance to operationalize allocation decisions, maintain forecasts, prepare scenarios, and surface tradeoffs.
• Work with marketing leaders across campaigns, events, agencies, contractors, regions, and shared services to plan, pace, track, and manage spend.
• Manage purchasing and contract lifecycle with Procurement, Finance, Legal, agencies, contractors, and vendors, including POs, SOWs, renewals, rate cards, and commitments.
• Maintain a trusted global view of spend; reconcile inputs, identify variances, duplicate costs, timing differences, and at-risk spend.
• Build models, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses that connect investments to business goals and inform funding decisions.
• Partner with Data Science to connect spend to outcomes and improve ROI understanding.

Skills

Budget management

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Forecasting

Process improvement

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Business Operations Manager within Business Marketing.

You will own the operating rhythm for budget administration across allocations, forecasts, POs, and invoices, partnering with marketing leaders, Strategic Finance, Procurement, Data Science, agencies, and regional teams to plan and pace spend, manage commitments, answer urgent questions, and translate investment data into clear actions.