OpenAI
Hardware Finance Sr. Manager
$234K–$260K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
About the job
Owns an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory, leading its forecasting, financial analysis, data and process improvements, and recommendations to support business decisions.
What you'll do
- Own forecasting, close, and variance analysis for the assigned hardware COGS or inventory scope; explain trends and their implications for cash, COGS, and margin.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to establish financial data, systems, dashboards, governance, and scalable finance processes.
- Develop scenarios and recommendations, identify material risks and tradeoffs, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in multiple relevant domains, with demonstrated ownership in at least two.
- Demonstrated leadership of ambiguous cross-functional initiatives with material impact.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
Nice to have
- Evidence of building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.
- Ability to identify accounting, control, data, and source implications and engage the right owners.
Pay
$234K – $260K (base salary)
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