Asset Compliance Program Lead, Hardware

The role

You will establish a cross-business framework to provide reliable lifecycle visibility over hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment. You will design asset-compliance operating models, define systems roadmaps, and build lifecycle reconciliations across internal and third-party sites.

What you will do

• Design and scale the end-to-end asset-compliance operating model.
• Define the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap.
• Establish clear ownership and control points across OpenAI teams and third-party custodians.
• Build lifecycle reconciliations and a scalable verification model.
• Establish an initial baseline of asset exposure and control gaps.
• Identify recurring issues and use automation or AI to prevent repeat problems.
• Shape policy, standards, and governance improvements.
• Define executive reporting on asset completeness and control performance.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in hardware operations, supply chain, manufacturing, asset management, procurement operations, audit, risk and controls, or a similarly control-intensive environment.
• Experience owning or improving end-to-end asset, custody, inventory, or third-party control processes.
• Experience operating in complex hardware environments such as contract manufacturing, supplier-held assets, or global custody.
• Systems fluency, including ERP platforms such as SAP or Oracle.
• Experience defining or improving asset-management, workflow, reporting, or control systems.
• Experience establishing audit readiness through risk-based testing, reconciliations, and evidence reviews.
• Ability to build practical operating models from ambiguity.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and third parties without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Practical judgment using AI to improve analysis, documentation, exception management, or workflow design.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Central Procurement – Hardware Operations team builds scalable, AI-enabled operating foundations for a growing hardware footprint.