Workplace
hybrid
Employment
Full-Time
Published
May 4, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
About the Role 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. In this role, you will: - 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. You might thrive in this role if you have: - 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
Requirements
Department: Strategic Finance; Team: Strategic Finance