Commercial Solution Engineer in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale its commercial offerings—overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, and revenue accounting. We work cross-functionally with Technical Revenue, Finance Data, and Revenue Systems teams to support complex commercial arrangements, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity. About the Role As a Revenue Accounting Manager, you will own revenue accounting processes for consumption and usage-based revenue recognition while helping implement and maintain the systems, data flows, and accounting rules that support accurate financial reporting. You will serve as a key execution partner on onboarding new revenue streams, Fusion Accounting Hub rule updates, translating accounting requirements into expected journal entries, source-to-general-ledger mappings, user acceptance testing, data validation, and controlled operating processes. We’re looking for a hands-on revenue accounting owner who combines strong close discipline with systems and data fluency, independently coordinates cross-functional implementation work, and strengthens the accounting infrastructure supporting OpenAI’s growth. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own the monthly close for usage-based revenue and payment processor accounting, including journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, controls, and supporting documentation. Prepare and review revenue-related journal entries while understanding the underlying transaction lifecycle, accounting methodology, billing arrangements, source data, and expected financial reporting outcomes. Perform reconciliations for key revenue accounts, investigate discrepancies, and drive issues to resolution. Own flux

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Technical Accounting to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role This senior leader will own key elements of Ads revenue accounting from technical assessment through operational execution. The role will guide accounting for products, pricing, contracts, incentives, credits, refunds, makegoods, international expansion, and new go-to-market motions. It will establish governance and translate approved accounting positions into launch, billing, data, close, reconciliation, and control requirements. Success requires deep technical revenue expertise, strong business partnership, and the ability to build durable 0-to-1 processes in a fast-changing environment. Advertising is a critical and growing monetization vector for OpenAI, and this role will help shape the financial foundations that enable Ads to scale responsibly and transparently. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead technical accounting assessments for Ads products and commercial arrangements, including performance obligations, variable consideration, allocation, principal-versus-agent, collectibility, contract modifications, refunds, incentives, credits, makegoods, and revenue presentation. Own and continuously evolve Ads revenue accounting policies and operating guidance as product behavior, pricing, contracting, incentive programs, and billing models change. Establish governance for new pro

About the Team OpenAI's Professional Services team helps organizations move from AI ambition to durable production outcomes. We partner with customers on complex deployments and build the strategy, commercial models, operating mechanisms, and delivery capacity needed to realize value from OpenAI's models and products. The team works across Go-to-Market, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Data, Systems, and delivery partners. We are building a services motion that is customer-centered, commercially rigorous, operationally scalable, and deliberately connected to product adoption. About the Role We are seeking a senior GTM Strategy & Operations professional to build and scale the operating system for OpenAI's Professional Services business. This is a foundational, hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of business strategy, finance, go-to-market, and delivery. You will turn ambiguous questions—what we offer, how we price and package it, how we plan capacity, and how we measure performance—into clear decisions and repeatable mechanisms. You will own business planning, pricing and packaging, forecasting and modeling, management reporting, and cross-functional strategic initiatives. You will build integrated views of demand, staffing, revenue, margin, and delivery performance; replace one-off analyses with durable processes; and create operating cadences that help leaders act early. You will be a trusted partner to Professional Services, GTM, FDE, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Revenue Operations, and Data leaders. The right person combines direct Professional Services judgment with rigorous analytics, executive communication, and the willingness to build the model, process, or dashboard themselves. You’ll be responsible for: Define and drive the business and GTM strategy for Professional Services, including target customer needs, offer portfolio, positioning, pricing and packaging, partner motions,

About the Team OpenAI’s Business organization works with customers and partners on some of our most complex and consequential opportunities. These efforts require rigorous strategy, strong operating leadership, and coordinated execution across commercial, product, technical, deployment, and go-to-market teams. About the Role We are hiring a Business Lead to serve as the operating leader for a strategically important initiative anchored in a major partnership. This person will turn an ambitious, cross-functional mandate into a clear strategy, operating plan, decision structure, and set of measurable outcomes. This role combines strategy and operations, product judgment, commercial skills, and the ability to get things done. You will identify the most promising product and customer opportunities, develop a point of view on how our products should work together, shape the commercial approach, and personally drive execution across both organizations. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to own outcomes, not just coordinate work. You will structure ambiguous problems, establish priorities, build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and work across product, engineering, deployment, and go-to-market teams to remove blockers and deliver results. Success means establishing a durable operating model for the initiative, improving decision velocity, translating strategy into coordinated execution, launching a joint go-to-market motion, landing an initial cohort of customers, and delivering a high-quality enterprise deployment. In this role, you will: Own the initiative’s integrated strategy and operating plan, including priorities, desired outcomes, metrics, owners, dependencies, and decision points Structure complex and ambiguous business problems, develop fact-based recommendations, and translate them into clear choices and executable plans Define success measures and build operating reviews that surface progress, risks, tradeoffs, and requi

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Order to Cash (OTC) team oversees the end-to-end flow of commercial transactions from order intake and provisioning through billing, collections, credit risk, accounts receivable operations, and cash application. The team focuses on accuracy, compliance, operational discipline, and a high-quality customer experience. About the Role We are hiring for the Senior Credit & Collections role to support OpenAI's global receivables operations, with a focus on white-glove support for premier and strategic accounts across the U.S. and key regional areas of AR work, including standard operating procedures, payment methods, customer portals, disputes, cash application handoffs, escalations, and emerging go-to-market channels. In this role, you will manage complex customer accounts, guide priority AR workstreams, support credit reviews, and partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Billing Operations, Deal Desk, Legal, Accounting, Cash Application, Finance Systems, and external partners. You will help improve cash collections, reduce aging, support responsible credit decisions, and maintain a strong customer experience across sensitive, high-value, and operationally complex relationships. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In This Role, You Will Manage a portfolio of premier, strategic, and high-touch customer accounts across the U.S. and key regional AR work areas, ensuring timely collections, clear communication, and a white-glove customer experience. Support collections coverage across key regional areas of AR work, including payment follow-up, documentation requirements, portal submission workflows, tax or invoicing considerations, dispute coordination, and escalation management. Support new channel success, including marke

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role Compute is central to OpenAI’s roadmap and vision. We are seeking an Associate to support financial and strategic work across our compute and infrastructure portfolio. This is a finance generalist role that includes core FP&A responsibilities as well as investment analysis, commercial decision support, and strategic planning. You will own analyses and workstreams, partner closely with technical and finance teams, and help shape decisions about how OpenAI invests in and manages compute. In this role, you will be given direction on the objective and expected to independently structure the problem, work through incomplete information, and deliver a high-quality analysis and recommendation. In this role, you will: Build and maintain financial models across different elements of compute, including GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power Support planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure Perform investment analysis and evaluate commercial decisions and strategic initiatives Prepare high-quality analyses, recommendations, and Exec and Board-facing presentations Support business partners across compute infrastructure, FP&A, and strategic finance Help improve the team’s processes, tools, and ways of working, and identify opportunities for OpenAI to continue leading in compute You might thrive in this role if you have: 3+ years of experience across private/growth equity, investment banking, or strategic finance, or 3+ years in a finance operating role at a high-growth technology company Background in infrastructure, data

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Legal, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, Finance Systems, and the company’s GTM Deal Desk organization to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and provide clear conclusions and handoffs for downstream execution by Revenue Accounting Operations. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Technical Revenue Enablement to lead Revenue Recognition deal advisory for OpenAI’s general B2B commercial activity. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary Revenue Recognition counterpart to OpenAI’s Deal Desk organization, partnering with Legal, GTM, Product, Pricing, and Strategic Finance throughout the presignature deal lifecycle. You will own intake and triage, advise on non-standard terms, approve arrangements supported by established policy and precedent, and route novel or strategic matters to the appropriate technical owner. You will build a scalable deal-advisory model by translating ASC 606 into practical contract guardrails, approved language, decision trees, review thresholds, and clear service levels. This role requires deep technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, strong stakeholder influence, and the ability to make timely, risk-based decisions in a fast-moving environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead the Revenue Recognition deal-advisory function for general B2B transactions, serving as the primary finance counterpart to OpenAI’s GTM Deal Desk organization. Partner early with GTM Deal Desk, Legal, GTM, Pr

About the role As a Pricing Strategist focused on GTM, you will help shape pricing strategy for B2B enterprise customers across our product portfolio. Working within Finance and partnering with GTM, Sales, and Product, you will focus on pricing analytics, price performance, and the effectiveness of credit programs while contributing to broader commercial strategy. In this role, you will Build regular pricing-performance reviews, analyze discounting and concessions, and turn findings into better pricing guidance. Develop commercial strategies and pricing programs for customer segments such as education, startups, and government. Define objectives and success measures for credit programs and promotions, and evaluate their return on investment. Translate segment goals and product pricing strategy into scalable pricing frameworks and commercial structures. Partner on strategic enterprise deals to align commercial proposals with sound deal economics and pricing strategy. You might thrive in this role if you Approach problems from first principles, identify root causes, and develop clear options for stakeholders. Work effectively through ambiguity and differing perspectives. Understand how sales organizations operate and collaborate well across GTM strategy, Finance, and Product. Bring relevant experience from consulting, strategy and operations, or pricing, particularly work involving analytical teams. Experience with pricing analytics, pricing frameworks, discounting guardrails, or new-product pricing is helpful, but a strictly pricing-specific background is not required. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we mu

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid’s Partnerships team develops strategic relationships with technology platforms and other ecosystem partners that expand the reach and impact of Plaid’s products. This role will focus on data and product partnerships that power Plaid’s Credit products and insights. Plaid’s Credit team is building the future of lending by making cash flow data as widely used and trusted as traditional credit data. Our mission is to expand access to more affordable credit by giving lenders real-time financial insights that improve risk assessment and decision-making at scale. In this role, you will build and manage the external data partnerships that power Plaid’s Credit products. The partner ecosystem is broad and includes traditional credit data providers, alternative data providers, financial infrastructure companies, and other sources of differentiated data and insights. You will work closely with Product and Engineering to understand where new data can improve existing products or unlock entirely new capabilities. You will identify and prioritize partners, develop creative commercial structures, and negotiate complex agreements that balance product, economic, and strategic considerations.

About us EVERY™ is a leading VC-backed food tech ingredient company and market leader using precision fermentation to create animal proteins without the animal for the global food and beverage industry. EVERY™ is a team of passionate change-makers who are reimagining the factory farm model with a kinder, more sustainable alternative. Leveraging precision fermentation to produce hyper-functional and one-to-one replacement proteins from microorganisms, EVERY™ is on a mission to decouple the world’s proteins from the animals that make them. We are a passionate, determined (and fun!) team with a vital objective, and we're on the lookout for like-minded people to join our mission. For more information, visit www.every.com The Downstream Process Engineer II will be an integral member of our downstream process development team. You will use experimentation to optimize Every’s production process and then see the results of your changes in action at pilot and commercial-scale biomanufacturing sites. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with laboratory and tech transfer experience, who wants to make an impact at scale. What you'll Accomplish Optimize the Every downstream process via an iterative cycle. Improvements are developed in the laboratory, scaled up to an external pilot plant, and learnings are taken back to the lab for further troubleshooting and improvement. Perform various unit operations at the Every HQ such as TFF, depth filtration, chromatography, spray drying and other purification/separation processes. Develop and review tech transfer documentation to ensure successful scale up trials. Travel to external pilot plants to review the scale up of novel processes. Coordinate with third parties such as pilot scale equipment vendors to arrange internal and external trials. Partner with Every scientists and engineers to bring their bench ideas to pilot scale. Analyze results and report data to enable appropriate interpretation and

About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role The SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead will identify, incubate and scale new revenue opportunities across OpenAI’s SMB Ads business. This foundational role combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor and hands-on execution to develop differentiated customer propositions, validate product opportunities and launch new go-to-market programs. Working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Data Science, this person will lead initiatives from opportunity assessment through customer discovery, commercial pilots and transition to scale. The remit includes industry-specific opportunities, differentiated customer engagement models and innovative approaches across self-serve, sales-assisted and partner-led channels. The lead will also partner with SMB leadership and the Strategy & Operations team to inform the overall SMB strategy, contributing customer segmentation, commercial insights and evidence from incubation programs to broader planning and investment decisions. In This Role, You Will Identify untapped opportunities across SMB segments, industries, and channels. Build business cases and launch pilots to validate customer demand and commercial potential. Design new acquisition, activation, and expansion programs, including industry-speci

About the Team The GTM Strategy & Growth team drives the growth and evolution of our B2B business across products, customer segments, and routes to market. We partner closely with Product, Sales, Success, Data Science, Finance, and Marketing to define and execute go-to-market strategies for new product launches, commercialization models, customer growth initiatives, and market expansion opportunities. Our work sits at the intersection of product strategy, growth, and operations — shaping how we bring products to market, how we measure success, and how we scale adoption across customer segments. We operate across both strategic and highly operational domains, from defining long-term growth bets and commercial strategy to building launch plans, tracking performance, and driving cross-functional execution across the business. About the Role We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on individual contributor to join our GTM Strategy & Growth team and help shape how we grow and scale our B2B business across products, customer segments, and routes to market. This is a generalist role for someone who combines strong product intuition with thoughtful GTM strategy and can flex seamlessly between strategic thinking and operational execution. You’ll translate business priorities into clear growth strategies, operating plans, and cross-functional execution. Your work may span product launches, commercialization models, customer growth initiatives, market expansion, and the systems and processes that help the business scale. You should be highly analytical, comfortable working across a range of products and business problems, and experienced navigating complex cross-functional environments. Experience with technical or API-based products is valuable, but the most important qualities are strategic range, sound judgment, and the ability to turn customer, product, and market insights into practical recommendations and action. This role is based in San Francisco office, 4-5 times

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE This role owns Baseten's relationships and market intelligence across hyperscalers and strategic neoclouds, including NVIDIA cloud partners. This is a technical and commercial role in equal measure: you'll evaluate capacity from the GPU to the data center, negotiate cost and terms with suppliers, and stay close enough to the market to develop and defend a real point of view on where it's heading. Given current market conditions, Baseten needs a much stronger pulse on this part of the market so we can track pricing, stay close to the right relationships, and move fast the moment more capacity is needed. This is a senior, experienced hire who will also help pair with and develop 1-2 junior to mid-level teammates covering the same space. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build and maintain deep relationships across hyperscalers and strategic neoclouds (including NVIDIA cloud partners), working each organization from top to bottom rather than a single point of contact Maintain a consistent, "top of mind" presence with key accounts so Baseten is positioned to move quickly when capacity needs arise Evaluate capacity from the GPU to the data center — hardware generation, rack and node configuration, interconnect, power density, and cooling — so you know what a configuration will actually deliver, not just what the spec sheet claims Live in compute pricing daily: track rates by GPU generation, region, and contract term to keep Baseten inf

About the Team: We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to identify, structure, and scale partnerships that expand how businesses adopt and benefit from OpenAI. You will work across priority sectors, including legal, professional services, information services, and other B2B categories, while maintaining the flexibility to pursue the highest-impact opportunities as the market evolves. About the Role: You are a senior business development and partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of originating and closing complex partnerships. You can move from market strategy and executive engagement through deal development, launch, and growth. You combine strategic thinking, commercial discipline, and hands-on execution, and you can create clarity and momentum across multiple internal and external stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: Develop a portfolio strategy for high-impact B2B partnerships. Identify and prioritize partners based on customer reach, differentiated data or workflows, distribution, strategic value, and growth potential. Originate, structure, negotiate, and launch complex product and commercial partnerships. Build joint value propositions and business plans spanning integration, distribution, go-to-market, and customer adoption. Lead executive relationships and establish durable cross-functional partnership governance. Coordinate product, engineering, sales, marketing, legal, finance, security, policy, and operations to deliver partnership outcomes. Translate partner and market insight into product strategy and new partnership models. Track adoption, pipeline, revenue impact, strategic milestones, and partner performance, and communicate progress and risks clearly. Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, enterprise technology, or platform ecosystems. Proven experience personally originatin

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Power Execution team owns the strategy and execution required to secure reliable, scalable, and economically resilient power for OpenAI’s global data center portfolio. The team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, policy, legal, and operational work, partnering across OpenAI and with utilities, grid operators, regulators, counterparties, and public-sector stakeholders. About the Role The Energy Regulatory Lead will own energy regulatory strategy and execution for OpenAI’s infrastructure growth. This role will be the primary bridge between the Power Execution team and Public Policy and Government Affairs on energy regulatory matters, ensuring that OpenAI’s external engagement is grounded in project realities and that changing policy and regulatory conditions are translated into actionable infrastructure decisions. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role combines portfolio-level regulatory positioning with transactional regulatory work: evaluating jurisdictional pathways, supporting utility and energy transactions, coordinating approvals and filings, and helping project teams navigate tariffs, interconnection, load-service requirements, market rules, and regulatory risk from diligence through execution. In this role, you will: Develop and maintain OpenAI’s energy regulatory strategy across priority U.S. markets and, as needed, emerging geographies for infrastructure expansion. Coordinate closely with Public Policy and Government Affairs to shape energy regulatory priorities, engagement plans, messaging, and positions before utilities, public utility commissions, grid operators, state energy offices, and other relevant policymakers. Translate project requirements—load size, timing, reliability, cost, carbon, and expansion needs—into clear regulatory objectiv