Project Manager, Compute Transformation

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States; hybrid schedule with 3 days per week in the office

Salary: $278K–$308K annually plus equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing general-purpose artificial intelligence and products designed for safe, broad human benefit.

What you will do

• Own the integrated compute and infrastructure transformation plan, including workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resources, decisions, acceptance criteria, and production adoption.
• Map workflows and design scalable processes spanning demand planning, contracting, delivery, operations, invoicing, payment, and month-end close.
• Build source-of-truth systems connecting contractual commitments, delivery events, accepted capacity, usage, costs, and financial outputs.
• Coordinate ingestion and normalization of cloud usage, billing, invoice, and delivery data, with ownership, completeness checks, and traceability.
• Improve billing, accrual, allocation, reconciliation, pricing, SKU mapping, telemetry, and organizational-tag processes, including controlled manual adjustments.
• Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, Accounting, Procurement, Legal, Data, and Engineering on requirements, integrations, testing, rollout, training, risk management, and operational handoff.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in project or program management, finance transformation, infrastructure operations, or enterprise systems delivery in complex, scaled environments.
• Understanding of compute or infrastructure economics and finance processes including commitments, usage-based billing, procurement, accruals, cost allocation, and forecasting.
• Experience partnering with software and data engineers to define requirements, resolve tradeoffs, test solutions, and deliver production changes without direct authority.
• Strong process mindset with the ability to connect contractual terms, operational events, financial data, and control requirements into a practical future-state design.
• Fluency in data dependencies, system integrations, reconciliation, and data quality, with comfort working with analytical teams and tools such as SQL, Databricks, and BI platforms.
• Experience improving workflows through automation or AI with human review, controls, exception handling, and operational ownership.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including executive updates covering decisions, risks, business impact, and required actions.
• Experience driving complex initiatives through ambiguity and organizational change, with evidence of hands-on delivery and adoption.

Nice to have

• Cloud FinOps, infrastructure finance, or capacity-planning experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with an equity offer.
• Work as an embedded partner across Finance, Infrastructure, Data, Engineering, Accounting, Operations, Procurement, and Legal.
• Equal opportunity employment with reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law, including applicable fair-chance requirements for US-based candidates.