Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly forecasting and financial planning for the Compute & Infrastructure organization.
• Build and manage consolidation models for GPU/CPU capacity, storage, networking, and data center investments.
• Drive infrastructure investment decisions by evaluating build vs. buy and capacity allocation tradeoffs.
• Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs to guide executive decision-making.
• Implement stakeholder-facing dashboards to track compute spend, utilization, and unit economics.
• Lead budget vs. actual analysis and identify key cost drivers to reduce forecast variance.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend (OpEx vs CapEx).
• Build scenario models to support leadership decisions on capacity scaling and new model launches.

Requirements

• 10+ years in strategic finance, specifically within infrastructure, cloud, hardware, or compute-intensive environments.
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking.
• Proven experience running an FP&A team at a corporate or business unit level with significant scale.
• Strong financial modeling skills in capacity planning, unit economics, and scenario analysis.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or cloud spend (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, or data centers).
• Proficiency in Excel/Sheets, SQL, and BI tools such as Tableau.
• Ability to translate technical concepts like model training and system architecture into financial insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with planning systems like Anaplan.
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure cost drivers and the economics of training and serving models.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Engineering, Product, and Supply Chain teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to HSAs.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave.
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Generous equity packages.

About the Company

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.