Senior Strategic Finance Partner — AI Inference & Compute

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a senior Strategic Finance business partner for the Workloads team to optimize model serving efficiency and compute economics.

You will work with researchers and engineers to translate technical improvements into financial outcomes and help plan long-term compute Demand. The role combines strategic finance with AI research, requiring collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams, and offers relocation assistance with a hybrid 3-day-in-office schedule in

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy & operations, strategic finance, or a related analytical role.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with a track record of turning ambiguous problems into actionable recommendations.
• Executive presence and communication skills to build credibility with researchers and engineers, align stakeholders, and explain trade-offs.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with experience building processes and driving initiatives from idea through execution.
• Technical curiosity and enthusiasm for frontier AI and inference economics.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or cloud computing is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Inference researchers, Scaling, Product, and Data Science teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize optimization opportunities, weighing customer and economic trade-offs across model performance, latency, throughput, engagement, and compute cost.
• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve inference efficiency by establishing clear ownership, coordinating work across teams, and tracking execution progress.
• Establish key performance metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks to identify inference performance gaps and quantify the financial impact of improvements.
• Partner with Compute Finance and other Strategic Finance teams to incorporate expected inference efficiency improvements into long-term compute demand forecasts, capacity planning, investment decisions and financial projections.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Technical curiosity

AI/ML infra

Education

Technical academic background (CS/Engineering/Math)

Tools

Cloud computing

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a senior Strategic Finance business partner for the Workloads team to optimize model serving efficiency and compute economics.

You will work with researchers and engineers to translate technical improvements into financial outcomes and help plan long-term compute Demand. The role combines strategic finance with AI research, requiring collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams, and offers relocation assistance with a hybrid 3-day-in-office schedule in