Strategic Finance, Emerging B2B Products

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a Strategic Finance partner to collaborate with Product and GTM leaders, incubate and launch new B2B products, and develop 0→1 financial foundations for scale.

You will evaluate new initiatives, shape commercial strategy, and build forecasts and revenue targets, partnering with multiple finance and product teams to drive profitability and growth. The role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing with operational experience.
• Direct ownership of strategic finance, product finance, commercial finance, pricing and monetization, or product P&Ls in a complex B2B business.
• Track record of cross-functional partnership across Product, GTM, Data Science and ability to influence senior leaders.
• Expert modeling skills, including building detailed product P&Ls and operating models.
• Ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and communicate with leadership.
• Excellent communication and storytelling using data; familiarity with OpenAI business models and contribution margin.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic initiatives and new product launches, including early opportunity sizing, pricing, packaging, and business development deal structuring to enhance profitability.
• Deep dive into frameworks to forecast, analyze, and optimize product contribution margins and lifetime value.
• Establish and manage key metrics for product revenue, gross margin, and leading indicators, and report on them for improvement.
• Stay updated on market trends and competitive dynamics to refine financial strategies.
• Create high-quality executive and Board-facing presentations.
• Collaborate with Accounting and FP&A to evolve forecasting and reporting processes.

Skills

Investment banking

Cross-functional leadership

Financial modeling

Executive communication

SQL

AI fluency

P&L ownership

Tools

Codex

SQL

Job description

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team partners across OpenAI to turn company strategy into financial decisions, help allocate resources, and steer the business toward its highest-impact long-term outcomes.

Within Strategic Finance, the B2B Product Finance team owns the financial perspective on growth across OpenAI’s B2B portfolio. We connect monetization and customer economics with compute demand, capacity, margin, and resource planning, partnering closely with Product, GTM, Strategic Deal Desk, Compute Finance, Capacity Planning, Data, Accounting, and other Finance teams.

About the Role

We are hiring a strategic finance partner to partner with Product and GTM leaders in incubating and launching new B2B Products. You will evaluate new product initiatives and commercial viability, help shape commercial strategy, develop forecasts and revenue targets, and build the 0→1 financial foundations and decision-making frameworks to scale these products.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Support strategic initiatives and new product launches, including but not limited to: early opportunity sizing, pricing, packaging, and business development deal structuring to enhance product profitability.

• Deep dive into frameworks and process improvements to increase our sophistication in analyzing, forecasting, and optimizing product contribution margins and user lifetime value.

• Establish and manage key metrics underpinning product revenue,gross margin performance, and other leading indicators, and regularly monitor, analyze, and report on these metrics to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Stay updated on market trends and competitive dynamics to refine financial strategies.

• Create high-quality executive and Board-facing presentations.

• Collaborate with Accounting and FP&A teams to evolve financial forecasting and reporting processes.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing coupled with operational experience at a fast-paced, scaling company.

• Direct ownership of strategic finance, product finance, commercial finance, pricing and monetization, or product P&Ls in a complex B2B business.

• A track record of deep cross-functional partnership across Product, GTM, Data Science and the ability to influence senior leaders when incentives or priorities conflict.

• Expert modeling skills, including building detailed product P&Ls and operating models.

• The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively communicate with leadership.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to craft compelling narratives using data.

• Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy in financial reporting and analysis.

• Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI, including contribution margin analysis.

• Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.

• Experience with SQL and AI fluency, including experience using tools such as Codex to automate workflows, build analytical tools, and improve the speed and quality of financial analysis.

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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