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.