Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Supply Chain Transformation Architect role stands out because it sits where SaaS-style operating discipline meets physical-world complexity. OpenAI’s Finance Platform and Technology remit spans quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay alongside inventory and asset management, signalling a software-led approach to core business operations even as the company supports robotics, consumer hardware, and data center infrastructure.
For a SaaS career, the durable value here is learning how to build systems and data foundations that scale across functions, not just within a single product area. The work emphasizes integration patterns across ERP and planning tools, establishment of operational KPIs and governance, and the shift from spreadsheet-driven execution to automated workflows. That combination is highly transferable to SaaS organisations modernising back-office platforms, building internal products, or operationalising analytics and AI in decision loops.
The role fits professionals who prefer cross-functional problem solving and can translate between process owners, engineers, and data teams. It will suit someone who enjoys defining operating models, designing end-to-end workflows, and being accountable for measurable reliability in complex operations, rather than focusing solely on tool implementation or narrow domain optimisation.
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Job Description
About the Team
The Finance Platform & Technology team at OpenAI builds and scales the future-proof systems and data architecture that power our core financial operations. We enable business agility, compliance, and operational excellence across quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, and asset management for both B2B and B2C. Our focus is on modernizing workflows through strategic integrations, scalable automation, and seamless data flows empowering smarter decisions, reliable reporting, and sustainable growth as OpenAI evolves
About the Role
We are looking for a Supply Chain Transformation Architect to redesign and modernize our end-to-end supply chain operations supporting robotics, consumer hardware, and data center infrastructure.
This role sits at the intersection of process, systems, and data. Your primary focus will be transforming supply chain processes across planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and fulfillment—then enabling those processes with the right systems architecture, data foundation, and AI-driven automation.
You will help move the organization from manual, reactive operations to intelligent, data-driven supply chain execution.
In this role you will:
Lead End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation
Evaluate and redesign core supply chain processes across demand planning, supply planning, procurement, manufacturing operations, logistics, and fulfillment.
Identify operational bottlenecks, fragmented workflows, and manual processes that limit scalability.
Build standardized process frameworks and operating models that support rapid scaling of hardware programs.
Drive Operational Excellence
Implement structured supply chain practices such as:
S&OP / Integrated Business Planning
Supply risk management
Inventory optimization
Supplier collaboration frameworks
Logistics visibility and execution models
Establish operational KPIs and governance to improve predictability, responsiveness, and resilience.
Architect the Digital Supply Chain
Translate redesigned processes into integrated system workflows across ERP, planning tools, manufacturing systems, and logistics platforms.
Define how data flows across the supply chain to create a single operational source of truth.
Build the foundation for a Supply Chain Control Tower with end-to-end visibility and exception management.
Enable AI-Driven Operations
Stabilize and Streamline Operations
Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and disconnected systems.
Build scalable processes that enable predictable hardware supply chain execution.
Create playbooks and automated workflows that allow operations teams to focus on exceptions rather than routine tasks.
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.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
10+ years experience in supply chain operations, transformation, or supply chain technology roles.
Deep experience in hardware supply chains (consumer electronics, robotics, infrastructure, or complex manufacturing).
Proven ability to redesign supply chain processes and operating models, not just implement tools.
Experience implementing or working with ERP and supply chain planning systems.
Strong understanding of supply chain data, analytics, and operational KPIs.
Ability to bridge operations, engineering, and data teams to drive real change.
Experience introducing AI or advanced analytics into supply chain operations
Experience supporting robotics, electronics, semiconductor, or data center hardware supply chains.
Experience building modern digital supply chain capabilities (control towers, planning transformation, data platforms).
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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