OpenAI

Value Engineer, AI Success - San Francisco

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-10 years of experience in value engineering, management consulting, or similar roles
  • Strong financial and analytical skills with experience in quantifying and communicating value to executives
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation abilities
  • Experience with large-scale AI, cloud, or digital transformation initiatives
  • Ability to communicate clearly across technical and business audiences
  • Capable of translating AI capabilities into compelling business narratives
  • Hands-on approach to managing complex projects with measurable outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Lead business value assessments for major deals to support investment decisions
  • Develop standardized ROI, TCO, and value modeling tools for internal and customer use
  • Identify high-impact AI use cases through structured value discovery
  • Publish executive-ready business cases to enhance relationships with C-level stakeholders
  • Create scalable value frameworks and methodologies for value-based selling
  • Establish KPIs and dashboards to track and communicate value delivery
  • Collaborate with Account Directors to influence deal strategy and expansion opportunities
  • Contribute insights on how organizations derive value from AI initiatives

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Opportunity to shape and build the value engineering function from the ground up
  • Join a pioneering team focused on real-world AI impact
  • Collaborative environment working alongside Sales and Product teams
  • Work in a cutting-edge field pushing the boundaries of AI technology
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a Value Engineer to help articulate and quantify the business value of OpenAI's technology across Enterprise, Education, and Government customers. In this role, you will help customers and internal teams translate AI adoption into measurable financial and operational impact.

As an early member of the Value Engineering team, you will help define how OpenAI measures and communicates the real-world impact of AI across its customers. You will partner closely with Sales, AI Success Engineers, AI Deployment Engineering, and Product teams to identify high-impact AI use cases and build financial and operational business cases. Your work will directly influence executive alignment, investment decisions, renewals, and long-term expansion.

You will play a key role in helping build and shape the value engineering function from the ground up - developing repeatable frameworks, ROI models, value narratives, dashboards, and collateral that help internal teams and customers understand and measure the impact of AI adoption.

Success in this role is measured by how clearly customers and internal teams can quantify the value of AI, how effectively business cases support adoption and expansion, and how scalable value frameworks become across the GTM organization.

This role is based in San Francisco or New York City and we offer relocation benefits to new employees.

In This Role, You Will
  • Lead business value assessments for our largest deals, working closely with customers to identify key business drivers and quantify the value of OpenAI's products to support investment decisions
  • Build and maintain standardized ROI, TCO, and value modeling tools for internal and customer use.
  • Lead structured value discovery to identify high-impact use cases and define measurable outcomes.
  • Publish executive-ready business cases that quantify results and strengthen relationships with C-level stakeholders.
  • Codify value frameworks, methodologies, and reusable assets that scale value-based selling across the global GTM organization.
  • Establish baselines, KPIs, and dashboards to track and communicate value delivery.
  • Partner closely with Account Directors and post-sale teams to influence deal strategy, renewals, and expansion opportunities.
  • Contribute to thought leadership on AI-driven business transformation by identifying emerging patterns in how organizations realize value from AI.

You Will Thrive in This Role If You
  • Bring 6-10 years of experience in value engineering, management consulting, or adjacent roles.
  • Have strong financial and analytical skills, with experience quantifying and presenting value to executive stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate exceptional executive presence with strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • Have experience working on large-scale AI, cloud, or digital transformation initiatives.
  • Communicate with clarity and confidence across technical and business audiences.
  • Can translate AI capabilities into compelling financial, productivity, and workforce transformation narratives.
  • Enjoy managing multiple complex customers and driving toward concrete, measurable outcomes.
  • Demonstrate humility, curiosity, and a customer-first mindset.
  • Operate with high ownership, urgency, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
  • Are a creative builder who thrives in 01 environments and enjoys rolling up your sleeves to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.


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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100 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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