Strategic Finance, Hardware Product Finance

OpenAI • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals together under one organization to accomplish this.
We're building the most advanced AI models and platforms, making it easy for developers and customers to benefit from AI via our suite of products.
As OpenAI expands into hardware devices, success requires world-class financial stewardship across the entire product cost stack, from concept through launch and lifecycle cost optimization.
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.
We are hiring a Hardware Product Finance partner to own the product-level economics and provide financial decision support.
This role sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, GTM, and Finance, and is responsible for ensuring that key product and launch decisions—spanning pricing, feature tradeoffs, roadmap sequencing, and go-to-market strategy—are grounded in rigorous, product-level financial analysis.
This role will serve as the embedded finance partner to Product and GTM teams, with end-to-end ownership of product financial models, unit economics, and P&Ls across the hardware lifecycle. You will translate product and GTM strategy into financially grounded execution plans and help leadership evaluate tradeoffs across margin, scale, and capital efficiency for our hardware product.
We have a strong preference for candidates who can be based in our San Francisco HQ, but we are also open to Seattle-based candidates. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to hardware, manufacturing, or complex supply chain businesses.
• A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes, as measured on margin improvement, working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, and execution of cost-reduction initiatives.
• A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks.
• Expert modeling skills with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy.
• An exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights.
• Strong enthusiasm for building hardware products for the AI era.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product financial models across the hardware lifecycle, from early concept and roadmap planning through launch, scale, and sustainability, including unit economics, SKU-level P&Ls, and lifecycle margin trajectories.
• Serve as a key finance partner to Product, Engineering, and GTM to support key product decisions (e.g., pricing, feature tradeoffs, performance targets) through clear financial frameworks and scenario analysis.
• Translate product and GTM strategies into financially grounded execution plans, integrating assumptions around demand, pricing, volume ramps, mix, yields, and lifecycle margins.
• Drive product-level profitability and capital efficiency, proactively identifying margin risks, cost inflection points, and ROI tradeoffs across features, SKUs, and launch scenarios early in the development cycle.
• Partner closely with GTM teams to evaluate pricing, discounting, bundling, channel mix, and sales strategy, quantifying the margin, revenue, and cash-flow implications of different go-to-market approaches.
• Build and maintain standardized SKU-level P&Ls, unit-economics dashboards, and scenario models to provide consistent, executive-ready visibility into product performance and risks.
• Support decision-making by analyzing product economics, informing prioritization, sequencing, and long-term product strategy.
• Contribute to the development and scaling of the hardware product finance foundation, improving modeling rigor, data quality, and decision support as the hardware business grows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees