Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Strategic finance roles that sit directly on partnerships are increasingly central in SaaS, where distribution, pricing, and unit economics often hinge on third party channels. This position is notable because it is anchored in consumer oriented partnerships and tied closely to product decision making, bringing finance into the same room as deal leads and product owners rather than keeping it as a downstream reporting function.
For a SaaS career, the work maps to durable operating problems: translating partnership terms into measurable economics, building incrementality and performance measurement frameworks, and integrating those signals into forecasting and planning. Experience with pricing floors, rev share structures, and portfolio oversight tends to transfer across SaaS businesses that rely on marketplaces, media, platforms, or embedded distribution, especially as companies tighten governance around payback and margin.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides financial insights and guidance to support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics.
The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team partners closely with Product to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, including economic margins, pricing, and partnership deal pricing and structuring.
About the Role
We are hiring on our Strategic Finance Partnerships team to drive strategic decision-making across OpenAI’s growth and media partnership portfolio, focused on our consumer business. This role will be a critical finance partner to Partnerships deal leads and Product owners, responsible for evaluating, pricing, and structuring partnerships, and translating partner opportunity into decision-ready economics and performance management.
The role will be hands-on in deal evaluation, negotiation support, and portfolio oversight. You will shape how OpenAI approaches partnership unit economics, measurement and incrementality, and how partnership performance is incorporated into forecasts and planning.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model (3 days/week in-office). Relocation assistance is available.
In this role, you will:
Own financial evaluation for growth and media partnerships, including modeling revenue, margin, compute, and payback to support decision-making and negotiations.
Develop clear economic frameworks and deal guardrails (pricing floors, rev-share structures, caps, minimum guarantees, performance-based terms) to protect long-term unit economics.
Partner closely with Product and Partnerships to define and measure incrementality and ensure contract terms align with measurable outcomes.
Lead partnership deal pricing and structuring from early-stage strategy through final term-sheet negotiations, including executive-ready recommendations and tradeoffs.
Drive partnership portfolio performance management: establish core metrics, identify leading indicators, track variance to expectations, and surface risks and opportunities.
Integrate partnership economics into revenue forecasting and planning cycles in partnership with the broader team.
Identify recurring contract and measurement risks and establish internal governance and review mechanisms.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
8+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing coupled with operational experience at a fast-paced, scaling company.
A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.
Expert modeling skills, including building detailed product P&Ls and operating models.
The ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights and effectively communicate with leadership.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to craft compelling narratives using data.
Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy in financial reporting and analysis.
Comfort operating in a player-coach capacity—providing mentorship and direction while remaining deeply involved in analytical work.
Familiarity with business models and metrics relevant to OpenAI, including contribution margin analysis.
Strong daily AI workflow habits, including using Codex to move faster on analysis, modeling, documentation, and operating processes.
Enthusiasm for technology and artificial intelligence.
Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the financial trajectory of cutting-edge AI products while working at the intersection of strategy, finance, and technology. If you’re passionate about driving growth and optimizing product performance, we’d love to hear from you!
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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