Hardware Finance Sr. Manager
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end, such as BOM and product cost, manufacturing variance, inventory planning, logistics, or returns and warranty. You will own forecasting, close and variance analysis, give leadership clear trend analysis, build financial data, systems and dashboards, ensure data integrity and controls, improve finance processes, and develop scenarios and recommendations. This is an individual-contributor role with broad scope.
Requirements
- 8+ years of consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience
- Deep hands-on expertise across multiple domains, with ownership in at least two
- Leadership of ambiguous cross-functional initiatives
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication and stakeholder-influence skills
- Evidence of building scalable processes, systems or automated workflows
- Ability to identify accounting, control and data implications
Responsibilities
- Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end
- Own forecasting, close and business variance analysis
- Provide leadership with variance explanations, trend analysis and forward-looking signals
- Establish financial data, systems and dashboards with business teams and Finance Platforms
- Ensure data integrity and governance through controls and reviews
- Improve forecasting, reporting, systems and finance processes
- Identify risks, opportunities and tradeoffs early
- Develop scenarios and recommendations for leadership
- Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data and Finance
- Drive alignment without formal authority
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends