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Asset Compliance Program Lead, Hardware

OpenAI· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$216k - $240k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior individual-contributor role establishing a cross-business asset-compliance framework for hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment within OpenAI’s Central Procurement – Hardware Operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale the end-to-end asset-compliance operating model across acquisition and capitalization, custody and location tracking, transfers, lifecycle events, inventory and verification, impairment or retirement, and audit-evidence retention.
  • Define the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap, connecting requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory data, physical custody, transfers, and financial records.
  • Establish clear ownership and control points across OpenAI teams, suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics providers, and other third-party custodians.
  • Build lifecycle reconciliations and a scalable verification model across multiple internal and third-party sites, using risk-based inventories, sample testing, attestations, and corrective-action tracking to identify missing records, ownership or location gaps, unrecorded transfers, unresolved exceptions, and incomplete audit evidence.
  • Establish an initial baseline of asset exposure and control gaps, then prioritize remediation based on financial, operational, custody, and reporting risk.
  • Identify recurring issues and use process, system, workflow, automation, and AI-enabled improvements to prevent repeat problems and improve the stakeholder experience.
  • Shape policy, standards, and governance improvements by bringing operational evidence, implementation insight, and risk findings to the appropriate decision-makers.
  • Define executive reporting on asset completeness, control performance, audit readiness, remediation progress, and emerging risks.

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; including 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- or third-party-held assets, manufacturing equipment or tooling, global custody, logistics, or physical inventory and verification.
  • Systems fluency, including ERP platforms such as SAP or Oracle and the data flows among procurement, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory, asset records, and the general ledger; experience defining or improving asset-management, workflow, reporting, or control systems.
  • Experience establishing audit readiness through risk-based testing, reconciliations, evidence reviews, and remediation; ability to build practical operating models from ambiguity and influence senior stakeholders and third parties without formal authority.
  • Practical judgment using AI to improve analysis, documentation, exception management, or workflow design while maintaining appropriate data protection, human review, and validation.
  • Ability to turn complex, fragmented operations into practical standards, clear ownership, and scalable operating routines.
  • Comfort moving between detailed problem-solving and cross-functional influence without formal authority.
  • Balance a high bar for financial accuracy, audit readiness, and risk management with an enablement-focused approach that helps hardware teams move quickly.

Skills

Required:Asset managementERP systems (SAP, Oracle)Audit readinessCross-functional influence

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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