Project Manager, Compute Transformation

Details

The Transformation team at OpenAI partners with Finance, Infrastructure, Data, and Engineering to design and scale business processes and systems that support company growth. The team combines process design, systems thinking, and operational change to create reliable, repeatable, and well-controlled operations.

The role leads cross-functional initiatives connecting purchasing, operations, billing, accounting, and financial planning across compute commitments and data center initiatives. This is a hands-on individual contributor position responsible for problem definition, process design, integrated planning, and end-to-end delivery.

The role is based in San Francisco, California, with a hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Own an integrated compute and infrastructure transformation plan, including workstreams, milestones, critical dependencies, resources, decision logs, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive execution from problem definition through production adoption.
• Map current workflows and design scalable processes covering demand planning, contracting, delivery and acceptance, receiving and operations, invoicing, payment, and month-end close.
• Clarify ownership, handoffs, evidence requirements, and exception paths.
• Enable source-of-truth systems covering operational, accounting, and finance needs for data center construction, operations, and maintenance.
• Track contracts, tranches, delivery events, and capacity acceptance consistently.
• Connect committed spend to provisioned, accepted, allocated, and used capacity to support forecasting and financial review.
• Coordinate ingestion and normalization of cloud service provider usage, billing, invoice, and delivery data.
• Establish data ownership, completeness checks, and traceability to financial outputs.
• Improve compute billing, accrual, and allocation processes through pricing rules, SKU mappings, telemetry and organizational tags, reconciliations, and controlled manual adjustments.
• Partner with application, AI, and data engineers to translate requirements into integrations and automation across contract, procurement, compute data, and finance platforms.
• Establish monitoring and governed change controls.
• Align Infrastructure, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Legal, and Engineering on decisions and dependencies.
• Manage scope, risks, vendor dependencies, and change requests, escalating with clear options and business impact.
• Lead end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, rollout, training, and handoff to operational owners.
• Define success measures for traceability, data quality, manual effort, exception resolution, close readiness, and adoption.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in project or program management, finance transformation, infrastructure operations, or enterprise systems delivery in complex, scaled environments.
• Understanding of compute or infrastructure economics and related finance processes, including commitments, usage-based billing, procurement, accruals, cost allocation, and forecasting.
• Experience partnering with software and data engineers to define requirements, resolve tradeoffs, test solutions, and deliver production changes without direct authority.
• Strong process mindset and ability to connect contractual terms, operational events, financial data, and control requirements into a practical future-state design.
• Fluency in data dependencies, system integrations, reconciliation, and data quality.
• Comfort working with analytical teams and tools such as SQL, Databricks, and business intelligence platforms.
• Experience improving workflows through automation or AI with appropriate human review, controls, exception handling, and operational ownership.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including executive updates explaining decisions, risks, business impact, and required actions.
• Experience driving complex initiatives through ambiguity and organizational change, with evidence of hands-on delivery and adoption.
• Cloud FinOps, infrastructure finance, or capacity-planning experience is a strong plus.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and comprehensive benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent care expenses, parking, and transit.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.