Strategic Finance Lead, Corporate Finance and Capital Strategy

About the Position

Strategic Finance Lead, Corporate Finance and Capital Strategy

We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution.

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 and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders.
• Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations.
• Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields.
• A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation.
• Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly.
• Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders.
• A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly.
• Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset toward building AI-native workflows rather than traditional finance processes.
• Excellent judgment, low ego, and a collaborative approach to solving hard problems.

We Offer

• Compensation: $293K – $325K • Offers Equity
• 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.

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. 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.

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