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OpenAI · 5 days ago

Director of Strategic Finance, Payments & Platform

Buffalo-Niagara Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

12+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are hiring a Director of Strategic Finance, Payments & Platform to serve as the primary finance partner to their Payments and Integrity organizations, focusing on financial strategy, revenue forecasting, and cost efficiency.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary strategic finance partner for Payments and Integrity Product and Engineering Teams, with direct ownership of the payments and platform fees line item on the P&L, including forecasting, variance analysis, and margin impact as volumes scale

Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business Development to influence payments-related decisions, including checkout design, vendor selection, and commercial deal structures, with a focus on optimizing net revenue and contribution margin

Own the end-to-end economics of payments, including processing fees, network costs, chargebacks, refunds, and fraud losses, and translate these dynamics into clear product and pricing tradeoffs

Drive payments cost optimization initiatives, including vendor negotiations, routing strategy, regional expansion tradeoffs, and tooling investments

Lead quarterly and long-range planning for the payments cost base, ensuring payments economics scale sustainably alongside new monetization models, including emerging commerce and agent-initiated transactions

Support special projects to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies

Stay updated on market trends and competitive dynamics to refine financial strategies

Collaborate with Accounting and FP&A teams to evolve financial forecasting and reporting processes

Qualification

Financial strategyPayments economicsBudget ownershipSQLFinancial forecastingAnalytical skillsAttention to detailCommunication skillsTeam collaborationAdaptability