Strategic Finance, B2B Partnerships

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI seeks a senior financial strategist on the Partnerships Finance team in San Francisco, with a hybrid work model (3 days in‑office). You will own the financial evaluation of B2B partnerships, model revenue and unit economics, and guide pricing strategy and investment decisions.

You’ll translate opportunities into actionable economics and maintain performance governance across teams. You’ll lead complex negotiations, align cross‑functional partners, and create scalable forecasting models to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy‑side investing with operating experience at a fast‑paced scaling company.
• Strong ability to evaluate opportunities and risks in financial data.
• Expert modeling skills, including detailed P&L and operating models.
• Ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and influence leadership.
• Excellent communication skills and data‑driven storytelling.
• Cross‑functional partnership with Partnerships, GTM, Product, and Operations.
• Knowledge of SaaS/consumption metrics and unit economics is a plus.
• Roll up your sleeves attitude and ability to handle ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial evaluation of new B2B partnerships, modeling revenue, contribution margin, compute costs, cash flow, investment needs, and risk.
• Drive outcomes from priority partnerships through targets, operating plans, and reviews.
• Develop deal structures and guardrails across pricing, revenue share, funding, commitments, and protections.
• Lead partnership finance from strategy through negotiation and approval with clear recommendations.
• Partner with business teams to define incrementality, attribution, and success metrics, turning gaps into action.
• Incorporate partnership economics into forecasts, planning, and resource allocation with scalable models and governance.
• Deliver executive and Board‑facing presentations on performance and strategic recommendations.
• Stay current on market dynamics to shape B2B Partnerships strategy.

Skills

Investment banking

Consulting

Financial modeling

P&L analysis

Operating models

Data storytelling

Partnerships

Cross-functional collaboration

SaaS metrics

Leadership communication

Tools

Codex

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides financial insights and guidance to support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We work across Partnerships, GTM, Product, Compute, and Operations to allocate and deploy resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics.

The B2B Strategic Finance team focuses on the financial performance of our B2B products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We:

• Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management for our B2B business,
• Provide analytically-grounded insights on B2B product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation,
• Build the “0→1” financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth.

About the Role

We are hiring on our Partnerships Finance team to help drive strategic decision‑making across OpenAI’s B2B Partnerships. This role will be a critical finance partner to our Partnership teams, deal leads, Product owners, and Operations teams, responsible for evaluating, pricing/structuring, and driving success from partnerships, and translating opportunities into decision‑ready economics and ongoing performance management.

The role will be hands‑on in deal evaluation, structuring, negotiation support, and tracking. You will shape how OpenAI approaches partnership revenue targets, unit economics, measurement, and prioritization.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model (3 days/week in‑office). Relocation assistance is available.

In this role, you will:

• Own the financial evaluation of new B2B partnerships, modeling revenue, contribution margin, compute costs, cash flow, investment needs, and risk.
• Drive measurable outcomes from priority existing partnerships – especially distribution partnerships – through targets, operating plans, leading indicators, and recurring reviews.
• Develop deal structures and guardrails across pricing, revenue share, funding, commitments, and downside protections to align incentives and protect unit economics.
• Lead partnership finance from early strategy through negotiation and approval, translating complex terms into clear recommendations and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Partnerships, GTM, Product, and Operations to define incrementality, channel attribution, and success metrics, and turn performance gaps into action.
• Integrate partnership economics into forecasts, planning, and resource allocation, while building scalable models, reporting, and governance.
• Deliver high‑quality executive and Board‑facing presentations to communicate performance and strategic recommendations that influence key business stakeholders.
• Stay current on market dynamics to shape OpenAI’s B2B Partnerships strategy.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy‑side investing and operational experience at a fast‑paced, scaling company.
• A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.
• Expert modeling skills, including building detailed P&Ls and operating models.
• The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively influence leadership.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to craft compelling narratives using data.
• A partnership mentality to working cross‑functionally with key business partners and driving mutual success.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy in financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis.
• Strong daily AI workflow habits, including using Codex to move faster on analysis, modeling, documentation, and operating processes.
• Familiarity with SaaS and/or consumption‑driven business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality and ability to deal effectively with ambiguity in a fast‑paced environment.
• Deep enthusiasm for the deployment of AI and OpenAI’s mission.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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