PM Finance Transformation

About the Team

The Finance Transformation team at OpenAI partners closely with Finance Engineering Product and GTM to rethink and scale core business processes as the company grows. Our work sits at the intersection of process design systems architecture and operating model evolutionturning fragmented manual workflows into scalable repeatable and well-controlled platforms.

We operate as embedded partners to finance accounting and operations teams with real influence over priorities and roadmap. The team focuses on building durable foundations across finance-critical domains such as Record-to-Report Order-to-Cash Procure-to-Pay and Supply Chainenabling speed accuracy and insight as OpenAI continues to evolve.

About the Role

As a PM on the Finance Transformation team you will lead complex cross-functional initiatives to redesign and scale core finance and business processes. This role is not traditional project management or intake coordination. Instead you will operate as a process expert and transformation lead owning problem definition future-state design and end-to-end delivery in close partnership with AI and application engineers.

Youll work across Finance Accounting GTM Infra Data and Engineering to align on outcomes shape technical priorities and ensure solutions are built for scale auditability and long-term sustainability. Success in this role comes from deep understanding of how processes actually work comfort operating in ambiguity and the ability to translate business complexity into clear system-enabled solutions.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days/week in the office and offer relocation assistance.

In this role you will:

• Lead end-to-end transformation initiatives across core finance and business processes from current-state assessment through future-state design and scaled adoption.

• Act as a process expert and problem framer deeply understanding existing workflows to identify root causes translate business needs into clear requirements and influence process owners to adopt future-state leading practices.

• Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI to improve accuracy efficiency and decision-making across finance processes.

• Partner closely with AI and application engineers to design system-native solutions rather than manual workarounds or downstream fixes.

• Redesign operating models workflows and controls to enable consistent repeatable execution as the company scales globally.

• Drive cross-functional alignment across Finance Accounting GTM and Infra; balancing speed control and flexibility.

• Define success metrics and outcomes (cycle time error rates automation coverage close impact) and use them to guide delivery and prioritization.

• Lead UAT change management and rollout planning to ensure solutions are adopted and sustained in real operations.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8 years of experience in product management process transformation or finance process-owner roles in complex scaled environments.

• Deep understanding of how finance and operational processes actually run (e.g. O2C P2P supply chain core accounting) even if youve not owned every domain directly.

• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams and influencing technical priorities without owning direct reports.

• A strong process mindsetyou enjoy untangling ambiguity identifying root causes and designing future-state workflows that scale.

• Comfort operating across business and technical contexts with the ability to translate between stakeholders.

• A bias toward durable system-enabled solutions over manual processes or one-off fixes.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills especially in cross-functional settings.

• Experience leading complex initiatives through ambiguity tradeoffs and organizational change.

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.

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