Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
International expansion is a defining chapter for many SaaS businesses, and this Strategic Finance role sits where that story becomes measurable. The remit centers on building financial visibility across regions, translating market-specific performance into decision-ready narratives, and creating the operating cadence that keeps multi-geo execution coherent. In SaaS terms, it is about making revenue and investment efficiency comparable across markets, not just reporting results after the fact.
For a SaaS finance career, the role offers repeated exposure to the mechanics of scaling: forecasting in the presence of uncertainty, aligning regional leaders with central functions, and pressure-testing where incremental spend actually moves outcomes. The mix of performance management, governance design, and executive communication builds a toolkit that transfers across subscription businesses, especially those balancing product-led and enterprise motions across different regulatory and competitive landscapes.
This position tends to suit a senior operator who enjoys being a thought partner rather than a back-office analyst, and who can move between modeling detail and leadership-level framing. It will fit someone comfortable coordinating across time zones and functions, and motivated by building repeatable processes that make international growth legible and controllable over time.
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 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 recurring operating cadences, helping leadership track progress against regional goals and quickly surface emerging issues.
Partner across the finance organization to support public-company-readiness initiatives and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of international reporting.
Help design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes that improve financial visibility, forecasting, and execution across global teams.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
10+ total years of progressive experience in Investment Banking, Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Strategic Finance.
4+ years of direct experience Strategic Finance at a high-growth technology company, ideally publicly traded.
Exceptional modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex business drivers into clear, actionable frameworks.
A proven ability to communicate verbal and written insights at the executive level; and to and influence cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
Deep curiosity about disparate business models and how a wide range of end markets will be shaped by AI.
Strong organizational and process management skills, with a talent for orchestrating multiple parties to achieve an outcome.
An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality and an ability to deal effectively with ambiguity to thrive in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.
High enthusiasm for experimentation with and the deployment of AI.
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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