Strategic Finance, Hardware Product Finance
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $265,000 per year
About the role
- Own end-to-end product financial models across the hardware lifecycle, from early concept and roadmap planning through launch, scale, and sustainability, including unit economics, SKU-level P&Ls, and lifecycle margin trajectories.
- Serve as a key finance partner to Product, Engineering, and GTM to support key product decisions (e.g., pricing, feature tradeoffs, performance targets) through clear financial frameworks and scenario analysis.
- Translate product and GTM strategies into financially grounded execution plans, integrating assumptions around demand, pricing, volume ramps, mix, yields, and lifecycle margins.
- Drive product-level profitability and capital efficiency, proactively identifying margin risks, cost inflection points, and ROI tradeoffs across features, SKUs, and launch scenarios early in the development cycle.
- Partner closely with GTM teams to evaluate pricing, discounting, bundling, channel mix, and sales strategy, quantifying the margin, revenue, and cash-flow implications of different go-to-market approaches.
- Build and maintain standardized SKU-level P&Ls, unit-economics dashboards, and scenario models to provide consistent, executive-ready visibility into product performance and risks.
- Support decision-making by analyzing product economics, informing prioritization, sequencing, and long-term product strategy.
- Contribute to the development and scaling of the hardware product finance foundation, improving modeling rigor, data quality, and decision support as the hardware business grows.
Requirements
- 8+ 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.
- An 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 hardware products for the AI era.
Benefits
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelingunit economicsSKU-level P&Lsscenario analysismargin analysiscost inflection pointsROI tradeoffsdata analysisforecast accuracycost-reduction initiatives
Soft skills
critical evaluationattention to detailcommunication skillsstorytellingactionable insightsteam buildingbusiness outcomes focusenthusiasm for hardware productsdecision supportprioritization