Strategic Finance Generalist
OpenAI
Summary
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive strategic decisions for OpenAI across a variety of areas, including but not limited to: strategic and commercial transactions, capital markets activities, and partnering with Research, Data, and Corporate Development teams on critical initiatives.
Job description
About the Role
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive strategic decisions for OpenAI across a variety of areas, including but not limited to: strategic and commercial transactions, capital markets activities, and partnering with Research, Data, and Corporate Development teams on critical initiatives.
In this role, you will:
- Support strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives.
- Provide occasional finance business partnership to Research, supporting financial planning, program funding, and other business needs.
- Create high-quality presentations for communicating OpenAI's financial performance.
- Distill our business and cost drivers into key metrics that underpin how we communicate financial performance, allocate resources, and plan for growth.
- Identify areas of opportunity across our P&L, cash flow and balance sheet.
- Stay current on market trends and best-in-class financial performance benchmarks.
- Working closely with our Accounting and Corporate Finance teams to build and evolve our financial reporting as well as finance team operations.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- 8+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or buy-side investing, coupled with strategy and operations, business operations, or strategic finance experience at a fast-paced tech company.
- A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.
- The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively communicate with leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analyses and influence decisions across functions.
- Strong ownership, attention to detail, and the energy to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI.
- Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.
- Extensively used AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or buy-side investing
- Strategy and operations, business operations, or strategic finance experience at a fast-paced tech company
- Strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials
- Ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ownership and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI
- Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence
- Extensively used AI
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Accounts
- Health FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Expenses
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Medical Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Mental Health Support
- Life Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Learning & Development Stipend
- Daily Meals
- Relocation Support
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Wellness Stipends
Company overview
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory and company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, OpenAI initially operated as a non-profit research organization before transitioning to a capped-profit model. The company's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI has developed groundbreaking AI technologies including GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models, DALL-E for image generation, and Codex for programming assistance. Their most notable product, ChatGPT, has revolutionized human-AI interaction and brought large language models to mainstream audiences. OpenAI conducts cutting-edge research in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and reinforcement learning, while also developing practical AI applications that are transforming industries worldwide.