OpenAI

Strategic Finance Lead, B2B Strategy & Planning

OpenAI$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in Strategic Finance, with experience in fast-scaling tech environments.
  • Expertise in B2B subscription and usage-based business models.
  • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills (P&L, cash flow models).
  • Ability to evaluate financial opportunities and risks with attention to detail.
  • Proven experience navigating ambiguity and driving decision-making in complex scenarios.
  • Exceptional communication skills, capable of crafting executive presentations from complex data.
  • Curiosity about AI's impact on business and finance.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale B2B financial infrastructure for critical oversight and decision-making.
  • Lead consolidated planning for revenue, gross margin, and operational expenses.
  • Establish effective management reporting, including KPIs and executive readouts.
  • Collaborate with Finance teams to enhance processes to align with public company standards.
  • Drive forecasting and business reviews, incorporating product and engineering constraints.
  • Manage financial performance and unit economics of B2B products strategically.
  • Support and launch high-stake strategic initiatives with leadership collaboration.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a senior leader in B2B Strategic Finance to build and scale a new pillar within our finance organization. This is a highly visible role that reports into the Head of B2B Strategic Finance and supports some of our most critical executive stakeholders, including our COO, CFO, and CRO, among others on the B2B Leadership Team.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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:

Drive B2B finance scale and rigor
  • Build and scale core financial infrastructure across the B2B business, including forecasting methodology, variance management, and performance narratives that drive accountability and decision-making velocity.
  • Lead consolidated planning across revenue, gross margin (including compute), and opex for annual budget, forecasts, regular business reviews, and long-range planning.
  • Establish durable management reporting: KPI definitions, dashboards, month-end/quarter-end deliverables, and exec-ready readouts.
  • Partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems/Data to evolve processes and controls toward public-company standards.

Be a strategic partner to B2B leadership
  • Lead forecasting and business reviews across usage, revenue, and gross margin, including scenario modeling tied to product & engineering constraints and compute economics.
  • Holistically manage the financial performance and unit economics of our B2B products.
  • Partner with Compute and Engineering on margin optimization and quantifying trade-offs across product experience, cost, and scalability.

Stand up emerging high-stakes, strategic initiatives
  • Support high-priority strategic projects from 0 1, partnering closely with leadership and adjacent B2B finance teams to stand up the initial financial frameworks, decision support, and performance tracking.
  • Translate complex problems into clear executive narratives (trade-offs, risk/return, and strategic recommendations).
  • Transition emerging initiatives to long-term owners as they scale.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in Strategic Finance, Product Finance, Corporate FP&A, Corporate Development, Investment Banking/PE/VC, or Management Consulting-plus meaningful operating experience in a fast-scaling technology company.
  • Deep familiarity with B2B subscription and consumption / usage-based business models and the ability to reason fluently about unit economics and margin drivers (including compute-driven COGS).
  • Expert modeling and analytical skills (multi-scenario P&L and cash flow modeling, sensitivity analysis, and strong financial judgment).
  • A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials; attention to detail and accuracy in financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguity, lead senior stakeholders through trade-offs, and drive crisp decisions in high-uncertainty environments.
  • Exceptional communication and executive presence-strong at building Board/exec-ready narratives from complex, cross-functional inputs.
  • A roll up your sleeves mindset, high ownership, and deep curiosity about AI and how it will reshape enterprises, industries, and institutions.
  • Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn.
  • A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes.

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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