19 research jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The Procurement organization enables our mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. As a key part of this function, this role reports to the Head of Travel & Expense (T&E) and partners closely with Procurement Operations, Accounting, Finance, and business stakeholders to own and scale the company's global Events strategy, operations, and compliance. About the Role We are looking for a Travel Operations Lead to own and mature the operating model behind OpenAI's executive and employee travel programs. This role will be hands-on in executive travel support while also building the policies, supplier relationships, data, systems, and AI-enabled workflows that allow the program to scale with speed, confidentiality, safety, and control. This person will oversee high-touch executive travel support, including complex commercial travel globally; manage travel agency and supplier performance; own the executive travel...

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As a Technical Accounting Manager, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure and other strategic business activities. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, and cross-functional execution. You will be responsible for analyzing complex and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP, developing well-supported accounting conclusions, and translating...

About the Team The Tax team is evolving from a traditional compliance and provision function into a data-driven, AI-first operating model. We are building systems where complex tax work is structured, repeatable, scalable, and continuously improved through better data, workflows, and intelligent tooling. This team sits at the intersection of tax technical expertise, operating model design, data systems, and AI-enabled operations. Our goal is to reduce manual work, reduce reliance on institutional knowledge, improve auditability, and create faster, higher-quality tax insights for the business. About the Role As a Senior Manager, Tax Operations, you will help build and scale the tax infrastructure supporting complex business tax operations, strategic transactions, and forecasting. This is not a traditional provision or compliance role. Instead of primarily preparing returns or managing external advisors, you will help own and operationalize highly technical tax workstreams...

About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes. Within Strategic Finance, our team focuses on the financial performance of our B2B products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We partner with leaders across Product, GTM, Research, Partnerships, and Operations to: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management for our B2B business, Provide decision-quality insights on B2B product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation. Build the "0→1" financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. About the Role We are hiring for a Strategic Finance partner to help drive strategic decision making within our B2B Sales organization and support core financial planning,...

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale its commercial offerings - overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, and revenue accounting. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role As OpenAI scales monetization across self-serve, enterprise, partnerships, ads, and emerging business models, we need a strong operator to bridge Revenue business needs with technical execution. This role will sit at the center of Finance, Systems, and Engineering to ensure revenue capabilities are designed, prioritized, tested, and launched in a scalable and controlled way. The Revenue Enablement Senior Manager will own the business-side systems roadmap for Revenue,...

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. OpenAI's Payroll team is responsible for timely and accurate processing of payroll and ensuring compliance with all statutory regulations. About the Role At OpenAI, payroll is not a back-office function - it is mission-critical infrastructure. We are seeking a seasoned US Payroll Operations expert to scale, and continuously improve the payroll and payroll-support ecosystem that serves one of the fastest-growing and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Process biweekly payrolls for 5,000+ US employees, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery for exempt and non-exempt populations while maintaining compliance across federal, state and local...

About the Team The Internal Controls function sits within the broader Finance Risk Management (FRM) organization and plays a key role in strengthening the integrity, scalability, and reliability of OpenAI's finance-critical operations. Our team designs and governs the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework that supports accurate, transparent financial results. We focus on business-process controls across areas like procure-to-pay, payroll, revenue, month-end close, and infrastructure-related spend. We work closely with Accounting, Procurement, People Ops, Strategic Finance, Legal, and Compliance to ensure processes are well-designed, well-documented, and audit-ready. As part of FRM, we contribute to OpenAI's overall financial risk posture by supporting audit readiness, third-party risk considerations, and ongoing process improvements across the finance ecosystem. Together, we help build the foundation of trust and operational clarity needed for OpenAI to...

About the Team The Supply Chain Technology team within OpenAI's Enterprise Platform & Technology builds and scales the systems and data architecture that power our core supply chain operations. We enable operational agility, visibility, and execution across planning through fulfillment and partner operations. Our focus is on modernizing workflows through strategic integrations, scalable automation, and seamless data flows empowering better decisions, reliable operations, and sustainable growth as OpenAI evolves. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Application Engineer, Supply Chain Technology to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our global supply chain systems landscape. This role will serve as a senior hands-on expert across Oracle Fusion SCM, owning solution architecture and implementation inside Oracle while helping define how the broader supply chain technology ecosystem integrates with it. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires deep...

About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes. Within Strategic Finance, the B2B team focuses on the financial performance of our products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We partner with leaders across Product, GTM, Research, Partnerships, and Operations to: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management. Provide decision-quality insights on product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation. Build the "0→1" financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. About the Role We are hiring a senior leader in B2B Strategic Finance to build and scale a new pillar within our finance organization. This is a highly visible role that reports into the Head of B2B...

About the Team OpenAI's Finance and Revenue Operations organization builds the commercial infrastructure that enables the business to scale with speed, discipline, and financial integrity. Deal Desk partners closely with Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Technical Revenue, Finance, Order Management, Billing Operations, Product, and GTM Systems to structure and execute complex enterprise transactions. We help the business move quickly while ensuring commercial agreements are executable, scalable, and supported by strong operational and financial controls. As OpenAI expands its strategic cloud partnership motions (AWS), Deal Desk will play an important role in establishing the commercial workflows, guardrails, and execution mechanisms needed to support partner-led and marketplace-enabled enterprise transactions. About the Role We are hiring a Deal Desk Lead, Cloud Marketplaces & Partnerships - AWS Focus to lead the commercial execution framework for cloud-partner...

About The Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About The Role As a Senior Technical Accounting Manager, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships, you will own the technical accounting framework for bespoke revenue contracts, strategic partnerships, API credits, commercial incentives, revenue share, partner programs, and emerging product monetization models. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In This Role, You Will Partner closely with Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax,...

About the Role OpenAI's Applications organization spans several rapidly scaling businesses across Consumer, Enterprise, Developers, and Hardware. As OpenAI expands globally, the international business is becoming an increasingly important driver of growth, requiring deeper financial visibility, regional coordination, and market-specific investment decision-making. We are hiring a senior Strategic Finance thought partner to work closely with the Business Finance Officer (BFO), regional leadership and other Strategic Finance teams to drive the financial performance of OpenAI's international business. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations. You'll help leadership understand regional performance drivers, allocate investment effectively across markets, and ensure the organization scales globally with strong financial discipline. You'll also focus on the highest-leverage international priorities: building financial visibility across regions,...

About the Team OpenAI's Strategic Finance organization provides the financial insight and guidance that support the company's long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while preserving sustainable unit economics. The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team works closely with Product and Engineering to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, including economic margins, pricing, and partnership pricing and deal structuring. We also partner closely with the Infrastructure Engineering team to forecast infrastructure and compute demand and to manage margin targets and headcount planning with rigor. About the Role We are hiring a Director of Product Finance, Infrastructure and Compute Demand to help drive strategic decision-making across our product...

About the Team OpenAI is building a world-class customer and ecosystem risk program to support our global growth across enterprise, API, advertising, and strategic partnership channels. We're hiring a Third Party Risk Manager (GTM) to help scale customer risk operations, KYC/KYB onboarding, and sanctions screening across a rapidly expanding global customer and supplier ecosystem. About the Role This role is highly operational and cross-functional. You'll work closely with Legal, Security, Finance, Procurement, GTM Systems, and Sales teams to operationalize scalable risk controls without slowing the business down. You'll help design and improve onboarding workflows, drive customer and supplier sanctions screening operations, support complex escalations, and integrate risk tooling into business processes at scale. We're looking for someone who combines operational rigor with strong judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving...

About the Role We're looking for a Procurement Enablement Lead to improve how employees and stakeholders navigate procurement at OpenAI. This role partners across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to simplify workflows, improve guidance, and support scalable procurement experiences across the procurement lifecycle. You'll translate procurement policies and operational requirements into clearer processes, better-enabled systems, and more intuitive employee experiences that reduce friction while strengthening consistency and controls as OpenAI continues to grow. This role is ideal for someone who combines operational judgment, process design, and strong cross-functional partnership skills. You should be comfortable working in evolving environments where systems and workflows are still being built and continuously improved. A key part of the role will be identifying opportunities to use AI and automation to streamline workflows, reduce...

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. Our Controllership team provides accurate, timely, and decision-useful financial information to internal and external stakeholders, while building the processes, systems, and controls needed to support a rapidly evolving business. As OpenAI's products, pricing models, and commercial structures continue to expand, we are building a finance organization that can scale with both operational complexity and growth. About the Role We are looking for an Accounting Manager to help scale and operate our core financial close, reporting, and controls as we mature and grow as a company. This role will own critical areas of the balance sheet and P&L, partner closely with Business Systems and FP&A, and play a key role in building durable, SOX-ready accounting processes. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in complexity, cares deeply about...

About the Team Tax and Trade at OpenAI shapes business strategy by embedding critical tax, export controls, customs, and cross-border considerations into how the company builds, sources, scales, and operates in support of the mission. We combine deep expertise with practical systems thinking to look around corners, identify emerging risks and opportunities early, and help teams make smarter decisions at the point where strategy becomes execution. Across procurement, hardware operations, manufacturing, logistics, finance, legal, supplier onboarding, and operator workflows, we build robust, scalable support services leveraging cutting edge technology including governed AI and automation to make complex regulated work more durable, more efficient, and easier to scale. About the Role We're hiring a Sr. Manager, Customs and Trade Operations to lead OpenAI's global import customs strategy and operating model. This is a senior role with broad scope across hardware sourcing,...

About the Team The Enterprise Platform Technology team builds and operates the platforms and integrations that run the company's core business workflows across Finance, People, Procurement and GTM. We deliver secure, scalable system connectivity and AI-native experiences that reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve operational reliability across the enterprise stack. About the Role As an Enterprise Product Manager, AI Solutions, you will identify, shape, and scale AI-enabled products and workflows for core enterprise functions, with an initial emphasis on Finance. You will partner with Finance, Enterprise Platforms Engineering, People and other enterprise teams to translate operational pain points into practical AI solutions, from copilots and agentic workflows to data products and system automations. This is an individual contributor role with broad cross-functional leadership: you will define the roadmap, prioritize high-impact use cases, run structured...

About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive strategic decisions for OpenAI across a variety of areas, including board engagements, strategic & commercial transactions, capital markets activities, and supporting OpenAI's M&A activities. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Support critical corporate finance processes, including Board reporting and evolving our long-term forecasting models to support decision-making around expansion and operational strategies. Support strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market...