Project Manager, Compute Transformation

The role

You will lead cross-functional initiatives connecting purchasing, operations, billing, accounting, and financial planning for compute commitments and data center initiatives. You will design scalable processes and deliver systems to manage compute and infrastructure spend.

What you will do

• Own an integrated compute and infra transformation plan including workstreams, milestones, and dependencies.
• Map current workflows and design scalable processes from demand planning to month-end close.
• Enable source of truth systems for data center construction, operations, and maintenance.
• Drive consistent tracking of contracts, tranches, delivery events, and capacity acceptance.
• Coordinate reliable ingestion and normalization of cloud service provider usage and billing data.
• Improve compute billing, accrual, and allocation processes.
• Partner with engineers to translate requirements into integrations and automation.
• Align multiple departments on decisions, dependencies, scope, and risks.
• Lead end-to-end testing, UAT, rollout, training, and handoff to operational owners.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in project or program management, finance transformation, infrastructure operations, or enterprise systems delivery in complex, scaled environments.
• Understanding of compute or infrastructure economics and related finance processes.
• Experience partnering with software and data engineers to define requirements and deliver changes without direct authority.
• Strong process mindset to connect contractual terms, operational events, financial data, and control requirements.
• Fluency in data dependencies, system integrations, reconciliation, and data quality.
• Comfort working with analytical teams and tools such as SQL, Databricks, and BI platforms.
• Experience improving workflows through automation or AI.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.
• Experience driving complex initiatives through ambiguity and organizational change.

Nice to have

• Cloud FinOps, infrastructure finance, or capacity-planning experience

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.