OpenAI

Sr Structured Finance Execution Lead

OpenAI$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-15 years of experience in structured, project, or infrastructure finance.
  • Led multiple complex financings, with detailed individual decision-making.
  • Full transaction lifecycle experience, including structuring and closing.
  • Strong judgment in capital structure, counterparties, and risk allocation.
  • Bank training with a transition to in-house or advisory roles.
  • Experience in capital-intensive sectors like digital infrastructure or energy.
  • Track record of building financing processes in scaling environments.
  • Experience coaching and developing junior professionals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex financing processes from initial structuring to closing.
  • Translate capital-raising objectives into actionable plans and timelines.
  • Manage relationships with lenders, investors, and advisors during transactions.
  • Oversee financial modeling, diligence, and transaction documentation.
  • Recommend financing strategy and tradeoff decisions clearly.
  • Operate effectively in a small, high-impact team without relying on analysts.
  • Help develop repeatable internal financing processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a small, collaborative team environment.
  • Engagement in high-stakes, impactful transactions.
  • Direct involvement in shaping capital markets strategies.
  • Professional development through coaching junior staff.
  • Work in a dynamic, low-hierarchy setting with senior management.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a senior structured finance leader to create immediate execution leverage for a growing capital markets function. In this role, you'll take broad financing objectives, such as raising a large pool of capital from a defined set of counterparties, and independently turn them into well-run transaction processes.

You'll lead complex financings from strategy through close, manage counterparties and advisors, and bring sound judgment to capital structure, risk allocation, process design, and execution. This is a hands-on role for someone who is still close to the details, not a purely senior relationship manager. Your work will allow the team lead to spend less time in day-to-day execution and more time building the broader capital markets organization.

In this role, you will:
  • Lead large, complex financing processes from initial structuring through diligence, negotiation, documentation, and closing.
  • Translate broad capital-raising objectives into executable financing plans, timelines, work streams, and counterparty strategies.
  • Manage lenders, investors, advisors, counsel, and internal stakeholders across high-stakes transactions.
  • Provide oversight on financial structuring, modeling, diligence, risk allocation, and transaction documentation.
  • Make clear recommendations on financing strategy, counterparty selection, process design, and tradeoffs.
  • Operate effectively in a small, high-impact team without relying on a large analyst or associate bench.
  • Help build repeatable internal processes for a financing function that is still scaling.
  • Coach and develop more junior transaction professionals.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 8-15 years of experience executing structured finance, project finance, infrastructure finance, digital infrastructure finance, or other capital-intensive transactions.
  • Personally led multiple complex or large-scale financings through close, with the ability to explain your individual role and decisions in detail.
  • Experience across the full transaction lifecycle, including structuring, modeling oversight, lender or investor engagement, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
  • Strong judgment across capital structure, counterparties, risk allocation, and financing process design.
  • Bank training, ideally followed by a successful move into an in-house, principal, developer, infrastructure investment, or specialist advisory environment.
  • Exposure to data centers, digital infrastructure, power, energy, infrastructure, or similarly capital-intensive sectors.
  • Experience building financing processes or functions, rather than only operating within a mature platform.
  • A track record of managing, coaching, or developing junior transaction professionals.
  • Comfort operating in a low-hierarchy, high-ambiguity environment where senior leaders are expected to stay close to execution.
  • Willingness to relocate to or work consistently from San Francisco.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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