Director of Product Finance, Compute & Infrastructure Demand

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides the financial insight and guidance that support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while preserving sustainable unit economics.

About the Team

The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team works closely with Product and Engineering to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, and partner closely with the Infrastructure Engineering team to forecast infrastructure and compute demand and to manage margin targets and headcount planning with rigor.

About the Role

We are hiring a Director of Product Finance, Infrastructure and Compute Demand to help drive strategic decision-making across our product organization. This person will serve as the primary finance partner to the AGI Deployment (Applications) Infrastructure Engineering organization and play a critical role in connecting product usage, compute demand, infrastructure costs, and margin outcomes across the portfolio.

You will help build the frameworks that translate technical decisions into economic outcomes, shape planning across product and infrastructure teams, and ensure OpenAI is scaling its products with rigor and efficiency. You will also manage a small team, providing mentorship and leadership while remaining hands-on with analysis and execution.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance partner to the AGI Deployment (Applications) Infrastructure Engineering organization.


• Own the consolidated compute and infrastructure demand forecast for the products we bring to market, partnering closely with capacity planning and supply teams to inform compute planning and allocation decisions.


• Develop clear insight into the tradeoffs between customer experience, growth, and profitability, including how latency, throughput, and token usage affect margin performance.


• Develop frameworks to evaluate ROI on compute and infrastructure spend across products, features, and user segments, and use those insights to inform investment and optimization decisions.


• Create a durable cross-functional forum for compute economics, bringing together product, infrastructure, capacity planning, and finance to inform allocation, utilization, and margin tradeoffs.


• Prepare high-quality materials for executive and Board-level discussions.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ 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.


• 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.


• Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.


• Extensively used AI.

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