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Strategic Finance, Analyst (Infrastructure)

OpenAI
OpenAI Salary
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

About the Role

As the Strategic Finance Analyst focusing on infrastructure, you will be responsible for supporting and driving key investment decisions we make on dedicated infrastructure. This is a cross-functional and strategic role, working closely with engineers, research scientists, and external partners.

We believe that increasing compute is a huge lever to AI progress and we build some of the largest Supercomputers in the world. You won’t encounter any other organization in the world with as much compute per employee. We are a small team that moves quickly, with access to huge resources, working with a direct impact on the success of OpenAI and, by extension, the field of AI as a whole.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We operate on a hybrid work model with three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance.

In this role, you will :

  • Building and maintaining financial and investment models for highly-structured infrastructure projects.
  • Analyzing, developing and communicating objective recommendations involving the financing of critical infrastructure projects.

Experience

  • 5 years of experience across infrastructure investing, private / growth equity, private credit, investment banking, or restructuring.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. MBA / CFA helpful but not required.
  • Experience with project finance, capital project and infrastructure financial analysis, large-scale investment projects.
  • Demonstrated exceptionally strong analytical, financial modeling, and written and oral communication skills.
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure investing is strongly preferred.
  • You might enjoy this role if :

  • You’re an owner. You take extreme accountability of projects from day one and approach them creatively and energetically. You have agency; expressing creative, sometimes contrarian opinions to senior leaders is both valued and expected. Intellectual honesty, integrity, and reliability are paramount.
  • You have proven executive functioning skills. You are well organized, take deadlines seriously, and can manage ambiguous situations with composure.
  • You’re highly analytical. You’re comfortable evaluating large investments. This requires impeccable attention to detail and making decisions with imperfect information. You intuitively know when and where to simplify complexity. You’re tenacious and naturally want to get to the right answer.
  • You’re a strategic, efficient communicator. You enjoy writing. You think on multi-year timescales and can translate that mode of thinking to your day-to-day decision making. You use active listening skills to intuitively concisely and unambiguously communicate analyses.
  • You’re a flexible team player. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are committed to making your colleagues better. You intuitively understand the importance of keeping everyone in the loop, and you take proactive measures to do so.
  • You’re passionate about technology and artificial intelligence. You have insatiable curiosity and a lifelong learner.
  • 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

    For US Based Candidates : Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

    At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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