Strategic Finance, International

OpenAI

OpenAI

Accounting & Finance

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on May 23, 2026

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Strategic Finance

Compensation

  • $234K – $260K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

  • Mental health and wellness support

  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

  • Relocation support for eligible employees

  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Role

OpenAI’s Applications organization spans several rapidly scaling businesses across Consumer, Enterprise, Developers, and Hardware. 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.

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. 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.

  • 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.

  • Help establish scalable operating frameworks and governance processes that enable OpenAI to manage a rapidly growing global business with increasing rigor and consistency.

  • Drive international business reviews and recurring operating cadences, helping leadership track progress against regional goals and quickly surface emerging issues.

  • Partner across the finance organization to support public-company-readiness initiatives and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of international reporting.

  • Help design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes that improve financial visibility, forecasting, and execution across global teams.

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 experience Strategic Finance at a high-growth technology company, ideally publicly traded.

  • 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.

  • Strong organizational and process management skills, with a talent for orchestrating multiple parties to achieve an outcome.

  • 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 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $234K - $260K