Product Finance Manager, Foundations

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.

The Product Finance team focuses on managing the financial performance of our products. We ensure alignment between financial goals and product strategy through rigorous revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, and unit economics analysis. This team also provides hands-on support and leadership to drive analytical depth and execution excellence.

About the Role

We are hiring a Product Finance Manager to help drive strategic decision making across our organization. You will play a critical role in shaping our financial strategy by building the “backend” of Product Finance — consolidating reporting, driving automation, and ensuring our products’ unit economics and financial foundations are sound.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the financial trajectory of cutting-edge AI products while working at the intersection of strategy, finance, compute, and data science.

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:

• Consolidate product revenue and margin forecasting across ChatGPT, API, and other product lines, and deliver monthly and quarterly reporting packages for leadership, ensuring alignment with GTM Finance and other areas of Strategic Finance while surfacing insights, risks, and opportunities.

• Develop frameworks to evaluate product ROI, automate product P&Ls, and deliver real-time contribution margin insights.

• Partner closely with Compute StratFin to connect product forecasts with compute demand, and support centralized compute demand planning.

• Drive margin optimization by collaborating with Compute, Engineering, Operations, Payments, and Trust & Safety teams.

• Partner with Integrity and Financial Engineering teams to ensure scalable, data-first systems and broaden tracking of user and revenue metrics (e.g., NPS, monetization).

• Support headcount and OpEx planning for Applied Product, Engineering, and Design teams.

• Collaborate with Accounting and Corporate Finance to improve forecasting and reporting processes.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 6+ years of product finance, corporate finance, investment banking, and/or buy side investing experience. Ideally 2+ years in banking and 3+ years operating or investing.

• Strong financial modeling expertise, with a track record of building consolidation and margin frameworks, and advanced proficiency in Excel/GSheets.

• A data-first operator mindset: hands-on experience with SQL (and ideally Databricks).

• Comfort with deep operational rigor, including P&L allocations and data integrity (e.g., GPU tagging, infra software allocations).

• Experience partnering cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data science teams.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to distill complexity into clarity for leadership.

• Enthusiasm for technology, AI, and curiosity about compute economics.

About OpenAI

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