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Hardware Finance Manager

OpenAI· Strategic Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Hardware Finance Manager owning an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end, with potential scope across BOM/product cost, manufacturing variance, inventory planning, logistics, returns/warranty, or related hardware-finance responsibilities. Individual-contributor role requiring hands-on expertise in multiple domains and ability to operate independently, build scalable processes, and influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • 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 connecting business and supplier decisions to inventory, cash, COGS, and margin.
  • Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish financial data, systems, and dashboards for analysis.
  • Ensure data integrity and governance through definitions, ownership, validation checks, controls, and review processes.
  • Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes to scale with organization growth.
  • Build cross-functional relationships and identify material risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs early.
  • Develop practical scenarios and recommendations to help leadership make informed decisions.
  • Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance.
  • Drive alignment without formal authority and communicate complex financial issues to senior stakeholders.
  • Develop expertise in an adjacent COGS or inventory domain as priorities evolve.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
  • Deep hands-on expertise across multiple relevant domains with 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.

Skills

Required:Hardware finance expertiseFinancial modelingCross-functional leadership by influenceData governance and systems
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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