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At a glance
OpenAI is hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist in San Francisco, CA. It is a full-time hybrid role in Finance, Banking & Accounting, asking for at least 8 years of experience, first listed on November 1. The advertised pay is $234,000–$260,000 a year. OpenAI has 149 other openings in the US, 130 of them in San Francisco, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 107 Finance & Banking openings in San Francisco, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $175,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
OpenAI advertises $234,000 to $260,000 a year, a midpoint of $247,000 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 85% of the 199 finance & banking jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $159,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at OpenAI
OpenAI has 150 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 3 states. Most are in software & IT (47), data & AI (25) and marketing (18). The biggest locations are San Francisco, CA (131), New York, NY (22) and Seattle, WA (5). 7% of them are remote, none is marked entry level and 99% show pay. We collect OpenAI's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Ashby), never from job boards or agencies.
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About the Team
The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.
About the Role
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive strategic decisions for OpenAI across a variety of areas, including but not limited to: strategic and commercial transactions, capital markets activities, and partnering with Research, Data, and Corporate Development teams on critical initiatives.
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.
In this role, you will:
Support strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives.
Provide occasional finance business partnership to Research, supporting financial planning, program funding, and other business needs.
Create high-quality presentations for communicating OpenAI’s financial performance.
Distill our business and cost drivers into key metrics that underpin how we communicate financial performance, allocate resources, and plan for growth.
Identify areas of opportunity across our P&L, cash flow and balance sheet.
Stay current on market trends and best-in-class financial performance benchmarks.
Working closely with our Accounting and Corporate Finance teams to build and evolve our financial reporting as well as finance team operations.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
8+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or buy-side investing, coupled with strategy and operations, business operations, or strategic finance experience at a fast-paced tech company.
A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.
The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively communicate with leadership.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analyses and influence decisions across functions.
Strong ownership, attention to detail, and the energy to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI.
Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.
Extensively used 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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