Strategic Finance Lead, Corporate Finance and Capital Strategy

About the Role We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution. In this role, you will: - Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making. - Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk. - Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams. - Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders. - Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations. - Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes. You might thrive in this role if you have: - 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields. - A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation. - Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly. - Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. - Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders. - A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly. - Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset toward building AI-native workflows rather than traditional finance processes. - Excellent judgment, low ego, and a collaborative approach to solving hard problems. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and mai