Project Manager, Compute Transformation
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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About the Role
You will lead cross-functional initiatives that connect purchasing, operations, billing, accounting, and financial planning across compute commitments and data center initiatives. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you own problem definition, process design, integrated planning, and end-to-end delivery. You will turn ambiguous business problems into clear requirements, drive decisions, and deliver reliable processes and systems that make compute and infrastructure spend easier to understand, forecast, reconcile, and control. The role is based in San Francisco with 3 days per week in the office.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in project or program management, finance transformation, infrastructure operations, or enterprise systems delivery
- Understanding of compute or infrastructure economics and related finance processes
- Experience partnering with software and data engineers without direct authority
- Strong process mindset
- Fluency in data dependencies, system integrations, reconciliation and data quality; SQL, Databricks, BI tools
- Experience improving workflows through automation or AI
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Experience driving complex initiatives through ambiguity and organizational change
Responsibilities
- Own an integrated compute and infra transformation plan including workstreams, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria
- Map current workflows and design scalable processes from demand planning through month-end close
- Enable source of truth systems for operational and accounting needs for data center construction, operations and maintenance
- Drive consistent tracking of contracts, tranches, delivery events and capacity acceptance
- Coordinate ingestion and normalization of cloud service provider usage, billing, invoice and delivery data
- Improve compute billing, accrual and allocation processes
- Partner with engineers to translate requirements into integrations and automation
- Align Infrastructure, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Legal and Engineering on decisions and dependencies
- Lead end-to-end testing, UAT, rollout, training and handoff
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and paid office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- 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
