OpenAI

Structured Finance Sr Associate

OpenAI$120K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of relevant experience in project or structured finance
  • Strong skills in financial modeling including debt sizing and cash-flow analysis
  • Direct involvement in financing transactions from start to close
  • Background in banking, private equity, or infrastructure sectors
  • Ability to independently manage workstreams without instruction
  • Experience interacting with senior stakeholders and external parties
  • Familiarity with capital-intensive infrastructure sectors, particularly data centers or energy transition

Responsibilities

  • Translate financing goals into analyses and actionable plans
  • Assist senior transactors with complex financing deals
  • Lead the analysis and execution of financing workstreams
  • Manage transaction models with in-depth financial metrics
  • Collaborate with various stakeholders including banks and investors
  • Review documentation to ensure accuracy of financial details
  • Develop scalable tools and processes for the capital markets function

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a growing and innovative AI infrastructure environment
  • Collaboration with senior leaders and industry experts
  • Chance to shape and streamline financing processes
  • Engagement in high-impact, strategic financial transactions
  • Hands-on experience with diverse financing products and sources
Full Job Description
About the team

The Capital Markets team develops the financing strategy, solutions, and partnerships needed to support our expanding global AI infrastructure platform and long-term investment plans.

About the role

We're looking for a structured finance professional to serve as a technical execution engine for a lean, high-impact capital markets team. In this role, you'll own the models, analysis, diligence, process management, and key execution workstreams behind standardized or more "vanilla" financings, while partnering with senior transactors on more complex transactions.

This is not a junior analyst role. You'll need the experience and maturity to work directly with senior leaders, banks, investors, counsel, and advisors without multiple layers of review. You should be highly capable in the details, strong under transaction intensity, and ready to help build financing processes for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure platform.

What you'll do
  • Translate financing objectives into clear analyses, recommendations, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Support senior transactors on complex financings, including structuring, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
  • Lead analysis, diligence, process tracking, and execution workstreams for financing transactions.
  • Own transaction models, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
  • Work directly with internal stakeholders, banks, investors, counsel, advisors, and other counterparties.
  • Review transaction documentation and help ensure commercial, financial, and diligence details are reflected accurately.
  • Manage high-volume, detail-intensive workstreams in a lean team environment.
  • Help develop repeatable tools, processes, and analytical infrastructure as the capital markets function scales.

You might thrive in this role if you have
  • At least 4-6 years of directly relevant experience in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a closely related field.
  • Deep financial modeling capability, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
  • Meaningful involvement in financings that reached close, with a clear understanding of process, diligence, and documentation.
  • Experience at a bank, private equity or infrastructure investment firm, data center developer, infrastructure operator, or specialist advisory firm.
  • The ability to own workstreams independently, rather than only producing analysis on instruction.
  • Strong attention to detail and comfort operating in high-intensity transaction environments.
  • The maturity to interact directly with senior internal stakeholders and external counterparties.
  • Training under a well-regarded infrastructure or project finance group, platform, or senior leader.
  • Exposure to more than one financing product or capital source.
  • Experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, power, energy transition, or other capital-intensive infrastructure sectors.
  • Strong learning velocity and willingness to work without rigid role boundaries.
  • Willingness to work 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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