Chief of Staff, Finance & Operations

About OpenAI Foundation

AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care. It has the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits—faster medical breakthroughs, accelerated scientific discovery, more personalized services in healthcare and education, new tools for creativity and invention, higher productivity and economic growth, improved public services like transportation systems, and so much more.

But building powerful systems to benefit humanity is only a part of the work of our mission. Advanced AI models will also present new challenges that are already surfacing, and we need to be prepared to identify these challenges and develop solutions to address them.

These are the two dimensions of what we’re building the Foundation to do. We aim to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform what people are capable of, and deliver real benefits in people’s lives—while working hard with partners to be ready for new challenges, and to help make society resilient, as AI advances.

This work is just beginning. Over the next year, as we quickly ramp up, the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. This includes early investments toward our previously announced $25 billion commitment to curing diseases and AI resilience.

About The Role

We are looking for a Chief of Staff for Finance and Operations: a high-agency, operator who can translate priorities into execution, create clarity from ambiguity, and help the Finance and Operations leadership team scale effectively, leveraging AI whenever possible, and without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

This person owns the operating and coordination layer for Finance and Operations. You will support the team’s planning cadence, maintain visibility across financial, operational, people, systems, and special-project priorities, prepare leadership and board materials, and turn complex cross-functional issues into clear decisions and next steps. The right person combines strategic judgment with hands-on execution and uses AI agents, automation, and lightweight internal tools to multiply the team’s operating capacity.

In this role, you will

• Build and run the Finance and Operations operating cadence, including annual and quarterly planning, weekly leadership updates, meeting agendas, decision logs, follow-up systems, working documents, and cross-functional coordination; create clear, polished presentations and briefing materials for Foundation leadership, the board, and relevant committees.
• Maintain clear visibility across major Finance and Operations priorities, including tracking owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and escalation points.
• Support reporting by coordinating inputs, maintaining timelines, synthesizing key variances and tradeoffs, and helping translate financial information into actionable recommendations for leaders.
• Drive cross-functional execution on initiatives that span Finance, Operations, Legal, People, Recruiting, IT, program teams, and executive leadership by clarifying roles, sequencing decisions, surfacing blockers, and ensuring reliable handoffs and follow-through.
• Prepare and coordinate high-quality materials for leadership, board, and committee discussions leveraging AI, including financial and operating updates, decision memos, dashboards, pre-reads, and follow-up actions; ensure the underlying information is accurate, consistent, and decision-useful.
• Own scoped strategic and operating projects that need a reliable operator, from standing up a new process or system, improving an end-to-end workflow, mapping organizational capacity, or turning a messy operating problem into a clear recommendation and implementation plan.
  
  

We'd love to hear from you if you

• Have 8 years or equivalent experience in a chief of staff, finance, business operations, strategic operations, FP&A, program management, consulting, startup operations, nonprofit operations, or similar role.
• Have built and run planning processes, trackers, dashboards, templates, operating rhythms, or source-of-truth systems for fast-moving teams.
• Are exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and calm under ambiguity.
• Can turn wide-ranging discussions and complex financial or operational information into clear briefs, board-ready presentations, dashboards, recommendations, decisions, and next steps.
• Use discretion and good judgment with sensitive financial, employee, board, vendor, grant, and internal strategy information.
• Are energized by both systems-building and hands-on follow-through.
• Have strong interpersonal instincts: warm, direct, service-oriented, and able to work effectively with senior leaders, functional heads, program teams, board members, advisors, vendors, and external partners.
• Are deeply mission-aligned and excited to help ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.
  
  

It would be great if you also have

• Experience supporting finance, FP&A, accounting, treasury, grant operations, people operations, procurement, systems, or other operational functions in a scaling or mission-driven organization.
• Experience coordinating annual planning, board or committee reporting, systems implementations, or cross-functional operating initiatives.
• Experience deploying AI agents and automations that remove repetitive work, improve reporting and visibility, strengthen controls, and increase a team’s operating capacity.