Strategic Finance, International

About the Role

OpenAI’s Applications organization spans several rapidly scaling businesses across Consumer, Enterprise, Developers, and Hardware. As OpenAI expands globally, the international business is becoming an increasingly important driver of growth, requiring deeper financial visibility, regional coordination, and market-specific investment decision-making.

We are hiring a senior Strategic Finance thought partner to work closely with the Business Finance Officer (BFO), regional leadership and other Strategic Finance teams to drive the financial performance of OpenAI’s international business. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations. You’ll help leadership understand regional performance drivers, allocate investment effectively across markets, and ensure the organization scales globally with strong financial discipline.

You’ll also focus on the highest-leverage international priorities: building financial visibility across regions, improving operating rigor, identifying growth opportunities and risks, and ensuring alignment across regional leaders and central functional teams.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Periodic international travel is expected, with potential opportunities to live and work from one of our regional offices over time.

In this role, you will:

• Own financial visibility and performance management across OpenAI’s international business, including regional revenue, growth, investment efficiency, and operating metrics.

• Partner with regional leaders and functional teams to identify opportunities, risks, and operational bottlenecks across key international markets.

• Support international expansion planning by helping evaluate market opportunities, investment priorities, and regional scaling strategies.

• Develop executive-level reporting and financial narratives to help leadership understand international business performance and inform strategic decision-making.

• Coordinate cross-functional planning and forecasting processes across international regions, ensuring alignment between regional teams, Strategic Finance, Data Science, GTM, and Corporate Finance.

• Help establish scalable operating frameworks and governance processes that enable OpenAI to manage a rapidly growing global business with increasing rigor and consistency.

• Drive international business reviews and r