Marketing Operations Manager - Budget & Analytics (Hybrid)

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

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Business Operations Manager to join the Business Marketing team in a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. You will manage budgets, forecasts, POs, and reconciliations while partnering with Marketing, Strategic Finance, Data Science, and Procurement to drive spend efficiency and clarity.

You will translate investment data into actionable insights, build AI-enabled workflows, and help leaders allocate resources to maximize business impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in business operations, strategic finance, FP&A, marketing operations, or related quantitative role in a fast-moving, matrixed org.
• Hands-on experience with budgets, forecasts, POs, commitments, accruals, invoices, and reconciliation.
• Strong analytical skills and curiosity: digging into data to tell the business story.
• Understanding of purchasing, contracts, agencies, vendors, and related processes.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day budget administration across allocations, forecasts, commitments, POs, invoices, accruals, actuals, and reconciliation.
• Partner with Marketing leadership and Strategic Finance to operationalize allocations, forecasts, scenarios, and tradeoffs.
• Plan and pace spend with campaigns, events, agencies, contractors, regions, and shared services.
• Manage purchasing and contract lifecycle with Procurement, Finance, Legal, agencies, contractors, and vendors.
• Maintain a global view of spend, reconciling inputs and surfacing material issues early.
• Build models, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses linking investments to goals.
• Partner with Data Science to measure ROI and connect spend to outcomes.

Skills

Budget management

Forecasting

Data analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Business Operations Manager to join the Business Marketing team in a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. You will manage budgets, forecasts, POs, and reconciliations while partnering with Marketing, Strategic Finance, Data Science, and Procurement to drive spend efficiency and clarity.

You will translate investment data into actionable insights, build AI-enabled workflows, and help leaders allocate resources to maximize business impact.