finance
Posted May 22Strategic Finance, International
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Support international expansion planning by helping evaluate market opportunities, investment priorities, and regional scaling strategies.
- - Develop executive-level reporting and financial narratives to help leadership understand international business performance and inform strategic decision-making.
- - Coordinate cross-functional planning and forecasting processes across international regions, ensuring alignment between regional teams, Strategic Finance, Data Science, GTM, and Corporate Finance.
- - Drive international business reviews and recurring operating cadences, helping leadership track progress against regional goals and quickly surface emerging issues.
Requirements
- - Help design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes that improve financial visibility, forecasting, and execution across global teams.
- - Exceptional modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex business drivers into clear, actionable frameworks.
- - A proven ability to communicate verbal and written insights at the executive level; and to and influence cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
- - Deep curiosity about disparate business models and how a wide range of end markets will be shaped by AI.
- - An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality and an ability to deal effectively with ambiguity to thrive in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.
- - High enthusiasm for experimentation with and the deployment of AI.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- You might thrive in this role if you have: - 10+ total years of progressive
- experience in Investment Banking, Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Strategic Finance. - 4+ years of direct
Additional details
- As OpenAI expands globally, the international business is becoming an increasingly important driver of growth, requiring deeper financial visibility, regional coordination, and market-specific investment decision-making.
- We are hiring a senior Strategic Finance thought partner to work closely with the Business Finance Officer (BFO), regional leadership and other Strategic Finance teams to drive the financial performance of OpenAI’s international business.
- This role operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations.
- You’ll help leadership understand regional performance drivers, allocate investment effectively across markets, and ensure the organization scales globally with strong financial discipline.
- You’ll also focus on the highest-leverage international priorities: building financial visibility across regions, improving operating rigor, identifying growth opportunities and risks, and ensuring alignment across regional leaders and central functional teams.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
- Periodic international travel is expected, with potential opportunities to live and work from one of our regional offices over time. In this role,
- you will: - Own financial visibility and performance management across OpenAI’s international business, including regional revenue, growth, investment efficiency, and operating metrics.
- - Partner with regional leaders and functional teams to identify opportunities, risks, and operational bottlenecks across key international markets.
- - Help establish scalable operating frameworks and governance processes that enable OpenAI to manage a rapidly growing global business with increasing rigor and consistency.