Senior Manager, Ads Revenue Accounting
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 own key elements of Ads revenue accounting from technical assessment through operational execution. You will lead accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements, maintain accounting policies, establish governance for new products, and translate accounting conclusions into requirements for product, billing, data, close, and controls. You will partner with many teams, prepare technical memos and audit-ready support, and use data, AI, and automation to improve Finance workflows.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in revenue accounting, including ownership of complex ASC 606 judgments
- Leadership to set direction and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience with digital advertising, adtech, marketplaces, payments, usage-based services, or high-volume transaction environments
- Strong command of variable consideration, principal-versus-agent, contract modifications, incentives, credits, and collectibility
- Track record building 0-to-1 accounting processes, governance, and controls
- Clear written and executive communication
Responsibilities
- Lead technical accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements
- Own and evolve Ads revenue accounting policies and operating guidance
- Establish governance for new products and accounting decisions
- Translate accounting conclusions into requirements for product design, contracting, billing, data, close, reconciliations, and controls
- Own the operating cadence for incentive and makegood accounting, accruals, reserves, reconciliations, GL tie-outs, and flux analysis
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Sales, Legal, Tax, Billing, and Technical Accounting
- Prepare technical memos and audit-ready support and align conclusions with auditors
- Use data, AI, and automation to improve Finance workflows
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- 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 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 company 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
