OpenAI · 2 days ago
Procurement Operations Leader
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$234K/yr - $295K/yr
10+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Procurement Operations Leader will own the operational backbone of how OpenAI turns requests into committed, controlled, and payable spend, ensuring that every request, PO, and supplier record is complete and ready to scale through automation and AI-assisted workflows.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own the intake-to-PO operating model, including request validation, routing, PO creation, change management, and supplier master data
Ensure every request and PO is complete, policy-aligned, and audit-ready, with clean metadata that supports invoice matching and reporting
Increase first-pass invoice match rates by improving upstream data quality and exception logic
Reduce P2P cycle time through automation, self-service, and disciplined queue management
Codify approval rules, exception handling, and segregation of duties directly into Zip, Oracle, and connected systems
Expand and refine AI-assisted triage, validation, and routing so more volume moves through the system with less manual touchpoints
Build and maintain dashboards and operational metrics to track intake health, cycle time, exception rates, and control performance
Partner with Legal, Security, TPRM, and Finance Systems to ensure controls and policies are reflected in how work actually flows
Serve as the escalation point when operational breakdowns occur — and lead the resolution through to a clean outcome
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience running procurement, P2P, or intake-driven operations in fast-scaling environments
A strong understanding of how upstream intake and metadata quality drive downstream invoice accuracy, audit readiness, and financial clarity
A passion for transforming messy, manual processes into structured, scalable, automated systems
Leveraged AI/automation to improve quality, speed, and scale
Used data and metrics to spot risk, bottlenecks, and opportunities to simplify
A strong grasp of controls, segregation of duties, and compliance requirements across Procurement, Legal, and Finance
Comfort being a true player-coach — designing the operating model while also stepping into the queue to unblock a PO, fix a supplier record, or resolve a high-impact exception when needed
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner cross-functionally to design workflows that enable speed while protecting the business
Experience with tools such as Zip, Oracle, Jira, Navan, or similar platforms
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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