About the RoleOpenAI's Applications organization spans several rapidly scaling businesses across Consumer, Enterprise, Developers, and Hardware. As OpenAI expands globally, the international business is becoming an increasingly important driver of growth, requiring deeper financial visibility, regional coordination, and market-specific investment decision-making.
We are hiring a senior Strategic Finance thought partner to work closely with the Business Finance Officer (BFO), regional leadership and other Strategic Finance teams to drive the financial performance of OpenAI's international business. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations. You'll help leadership understand regional performance drivers, allocate investment effectively across markets, and ensure the organization scales globally with strong financial discipline.
You'll also focus on the highest-leverage international priorities: building financial visibility across regions, improving operating rigor, identifying growth opportunities and risks, and ensuring alignment across regional leaders and central functional teams.
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. Periodic international travel is expected, with potential opportunities to live and work from one of our regional offices over time.
In this role, you will:- Own financial visibility and performance management across OpenAI's international business, including regional revenue, growth, investment efficiency, and operating metrics.
- Partner with regional leaders and functional teams to identify opportunities, risks, and operational bottlenecks across key international markets.
- Support international expansion planning by helping evaluate market opportunities, investment priorities, and regional scaling strategies.
- Develop executive-level reporting and financial narratives to help leadership understand international business performance and inform strategic decision-making.
- Coordinate cross-functional planning and forecasting processes across international regions, ensuring alignment between regional teams, Strategic Finance, Data Science, GTM, and Corporate Finance.
- Help establish scalable operating frameworks and governance processes that enable OpenAI to manage a rapidly growing global business with increasing rigor and consistency.
- Drive international business reviews and recurring operating cadences, helping leadership track progress against regional goals and quickly surface emerging issues.
- Partner across the finance organization to support public-company-readiness initiatives and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of international reporting.
- Help design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes that improve financial visibility, forecasting, and execution across global teams.
You might thrive in this role if you have:- 10+ total years of progressive experience in Investment Banking, Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Strategic Finance.
- 4+ years of direct experience Strategic Finance at a high-growth technology company, ideally publicly traded.
- Exceptional modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex business drivers into clear, actionable frameworks.
- A proven ability to communicate verbal and written insights at the executive level; and to and influence cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
- Deep curiosity about disparate business models and how a wide range of end markets will be shaped by AI.
- Strong organizational and process management skills, with a talent for orchestrating multiple parties to achieve an outcome.
- An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality and an ability to deal effectively with ambiguity to thrive in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.
- High enthusiasm for experimentation with and the deployment of AI.
