Business Intelligence & Automation Lead, OpenAI

Business Intelligence & Automation Lead, OpenAI

Company OpenAI
Job title Business Intelligence & Automation Lead, Strategic Finance
Job location San Francisco, CA, US
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Build and own the architecture for self-serve and automated insight delivery — from data pipelines to dashboards, alerts, and agents.
  • Design and deploy agentic solutions using OpenAI’s internal tools to automate financial workflows such as daily pacing updates and forecast variance explanations.
  • Create scalable and reusable dashboards to support forecasting, LTV analysis, pricing, investment decisions, and KPI reporting.
  • Develop data tools and intelligent agents that unlock self-serve access to core company metrics across business units.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs into technical solutions that are resilient, extensible, and intuitive.
  • Define and enforce data quality standards, governance best practices, and documentation.

Requirements & Skills:

  • Have 6+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, BI Development, or a hybrid DS/DE role at a high-growth or high-scale company.
  • Are fluent in SQL and Python or another scripting language for automation.
  • Have deep experience with BI tools like Tableau, Looker, or equivalent (e.g., designing scalable semantic layers and metric definitions).
  • Are excited by the opportunity to build agents that automate manual financial and reporting processes and want to be at the forefront of using OpenAI’s own technologies to do so.
  • Understand financial and operational metrics deeply and have worked closely with FP&A or Strategic Finance teams.
  • Take initiative and ownership over the full lifecycle of data systems, tools, and agents.
  • Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating insight into impact.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love solving foundational problems.

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