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About the Team
The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes.
The Product Finance team focuses on managing the financial performance of our products. We ensure alignment between financial goals and product strategy through rigorous revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, and unit economics analysis. This team also provides hands-on support and leadership to drive analytical depth and execution excellence.
About the Role
We are hiring on our Strategic Finance team to help drive strategic decision making across our product organization.
You’ll partner closely with product and finance leaders to shape the strategy behind new product launches and strategic initiatives. By owning the key metrics behind product performance and surfacing actionable insights, you’ll play a critical role in guiding how we scale and optimize the business. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and storytelling.
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 and gross margin performance, 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:
8-10+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing coupled with 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 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.
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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