finance
Posted 1 weeks agoDirector, Technical Accounting , Revenue & Strategic Partnerships
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Support cross-functional teams as a technical accounting advisor on strategic partnerships, customer incentives, and new product monetization approaches.
Requirements
- CPA, CA, or equivalent accounting qualification.
- experience in technical revenue accounting, public accounting, accounting advisory, or accounting leadership roles in technology environments, with meaningful industry
- experience and a record of personally owning enterprise-significant judgments.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders across Strategic Finance, Product, Legal, Tax, Sales, Business Development, Revenue Accounting, Billing, Financial Reporting, and Internal Controls before signature, including resolving disagreement without relying on formal authority.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable, Finance-wide reference mechanisms, including risk-tiered intake, pre-signature checkpoints, escalation criteria, memo and policy standards, exception governance, and AI- or data-enabled contract review.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- 12+ years of progressive
Additional details
- About The Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.
- The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity.
- We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry.
- About The Role OpenAI seeks a Director, Technical Accounting, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships to set the technical revenue accounting strategy for the company's largest, most complex, and highest-risk commercial arrangements.
- This leader will personally assess novel fact patterns, establish and defend the accounting position, and shape deal structures before execution across enterprise contracts, strategic partnerships, API and consumption-based offerings, credits and incentives, revenue share, multi-party arrangements, and emerging product monetization models.
- This role will be the senior technical accounting partner to Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, and external auditors.
- The core mandate is technical judgment: independently synthesize the full contractual and economic substance, identify alternatives and second-order implications, resolve ambiguity under ASC 606 and related U.S.
- GAAP, and communicate a clear recommendation to executives and auditors.
- Operational know-how is essential to translate conclusions into billing, close, disclosures, systems, and controls, but process ownership is not the center of the role.
- In This Role, You Will - Partner closely with Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, and external auditors.