Strategic Finance, Emerging B2B Products

Openai; United States; Hybride; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation assistance

Résumé du poste

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Strategic Finance Partner to collaborate with Product and GTM leaders in incubating and launching B2B products. You will shape commercial strategy, build 0→1 financial foundations, and develop forecasts to scale new offerings.

The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model (3 days in the office) and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing with operating 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.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and craft compelling narratives from data.

Responsabilités

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

Connaissances

Strategic finance

Cross-functional partnership

Financial modeling

Product P&Ls

Data storytelling

Communication

Outils

SQL

Codex

Description du poste

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team partners across the company 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 the company’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 the company, 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 the company

the company 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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