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Senior Hardware Finance Leader

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293000.00 - 325000.00 USD / Year
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We are hiring a senior Hardware Finance Leader to own financial modeling for product cost, inventory, and manufacturing economics for OpenAI’s consumer hardware portfolio. This role is responsible for ensuring that hardware decisions—spanning capacity planning, manufacturing ramps, and inventory builds—are grounded in rigorous, decision-quality financial analysis before capital and material commitments are locked in. This role sits at the center of Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, Product, Accounting, and Tax, and serves as the embedded finance partner for hardware cost, inventory, and capital-commitment decisions. You will build the financial foundation that enables leadership to understand margins, inventory exposure, and downside risk as hardware programs move from NPI through launch and scale.

Job Responsibility:

  • Serve as the primary finance partner to Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, and Procurement, shaping decisions on capacity planning, ramp profiles, and material commitments
  • Build and own integrated financial models that track COGS, inventory, working capital, cash flow, and P&L across the full hardware lifecycle
  • Model and maintain detailed cost drivers, including BOM structure, CapEx, freight and logistics, yield assumptions, manufacturing variances, tariffs and import duties, warranty accruals, and inventory reserves
  • Own inventory and cash-flow forecasting tied to manufacturing execution, including inventory builds, reserves, obsolescence risk, and launch readiness
  • Maintain cost and risk sensitivity frameworks across volume, yield, ramp timing, mix, and cost-down realization to enable clear, decision-ready tradeoffs
  • Translate product roadmaps and supply-chain plans into financially grounded execution plans, clearly quantifying the financial implications of capacity and ramp decisions
  • Own scenario analysis for volume changes, ramp shifts, and supply-chain disruptions, including impacts to margins, inventory exposure, and cash flow
  • Establish clear escalation paths for material cost increases or inventory risk prior to supplier, tooling, or capacity commitment
  • Establish portfolio-level consistency and governance, ensuring standard costs, inventory metrics, and manufacturing economics are accurate and comparable across programs and generations
  • Partner closely with Accounting, Tax, and Corporate Finance to ensure hardware COGS and inventory exposure are reflected correctly in the P&L and balance sheet, supported by clear standard-cost methodologies, reserve frameworks, tariff accounting, and scalable system flows
  • Contribute to the scaling of the hardware COGS and supply-chain finance foundation, improving modeling rigor, governance, and decision support as volumes and complexity grow

Requirements:

  • 12+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to hardware, manufacturing, or complex supply chain businesses
  • A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes, as measured on margin improvement, working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, and execution of cost-reduction initiatives
  • A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks
  • Expert modeling skills with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy
  • Exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights
  • Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights
  • Strong enthusiasm for building the human-computer interface for the AI era
What we offer:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided
  • Offers Equity
  • performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees

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Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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