Strategic Finance Lead

Responsibilities

• Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making
• Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk
• Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations for executives, the board, and senior stakeholders
• Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution
• Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows and decision-making

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, or infrastructure finance
• Strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation
• Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments
• Exceptional financial modeling and strategic thinking capabilities
• Strong executive presence and communication skills
• High-agency operating style with a willingness to build directly
• Excitement around using AI to build AI-native workflows

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.