Hardware Finance Sr. Manager

The role

The Hardware Finance Sr. Manager will own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end. This individual-contributor role involves forecasting, variance analysis, and partnering with cross-functional teams to connect business decisions to product cost and margin.

What you will do

• Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end.
• Own forecasting, close, and business variance analysis for the assigned scope.
• Provide hardware leadership with variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking signals.
• Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish financial data, systems, and dashboards.
• Ensure data integrity and governance through definitions, ownership, validation, and controls.
• Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and identify risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
• Develop practical scenarios and recommendations for leadership decisions.
• Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance.
• Drive alignment without formal authority and communicate complex issues to senior stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
• Deep, hands-on expertise across 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.
• Evidence of building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.
• Ability to identify accounting, control, data, and source implications and engage the right owners.
• Ability to lead through influence and improve others' effectiveness.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company seeks to safely deploy AI through its products.