OpenAI4 days ago
Tax Director, Business Advisory and Strategic Finance
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Responsibilities
- 01Serve as a senior tax business partner across OpenAI, advising on strategic business decisions, product development, commercial models, infrastructure investments, financing initiatives, and international growth.
- 02Serve as the lead tax advisor on complex commercial, infrastructure, and financing arrangements. Evaluate tax and economic trade-offs and translate advice into practical structures and contractual positions.
- 03Help shape major commercial and financing arrangements by evaluating alternative structures, modeling tax and economic outcomes, and advising on the tradeoffs among cost, flexibility, accounting treatment, risk, and speed.
- 04Advise on structured finance and capital markets transactions, including debt and equity financings, credit facilities, asset-backed arrangements, third-party financing, intercompany funding, and other bespoke financing structures.
- 05Partner closely with commercial and legal teams on complex contracting matters, including compute and infrastructure agreements, customer arrangements, technology and IP agreements, supply agreements, and strategic partnerships.
- 06Translate tax considerations into practical contracting positions, including payment characterization, pricing, ownership, withholding, gross-ups, indemnities, tax responsibilities, and information rights.
- 07Advise Product and commercial teams as OpenAI develops and scales products, including product launches, pricing and monetization models, distribution channels, customer offerings, and new revenue streams.
- 08Partner with business teams to design scalable operating and contracting models that support growth across products, customer segments, and geographies.
- 09Support OpenAI’s international expansion by advising on market entry, legal entity structures, operating models, customer contracting, cross-border service and revenue flows, intercompany arrangements, and the scaling of regional operations.
- 10Evaluate the broader tax implications of new business activities, including permanent establishment, withholding, transfer pricing, income characterization, and other cross-border considerations.
- 11Monitor relevant tax law, regulatory, and financial market developments and assess their implications for OpenAI’s products, transactions, financing strategy, and operating model.
- 12Build contracting guidelines, product advisory frameworks, standard tax positions, decision tools, and escalation protocols that allow recurring business activities to scale quickly and consistently.
- 13Manage external advisors and coordinate across internal tax specialties to deliver timely, integrated, and practical advice.
- 14Communicate complex tax and business issues clearly to senior leaders and non-tax stakeholders, focusing on the business implications, available choices, and recommended paths forward.
Requirements
- 01A J.D. with 12+ years of progressive tax experience, ideally with experience across a law firm, accounting firm, financial institution, or high-growth multinational business. An LL.M. in Taxation is a plus.
- 02Broad tax expertise and a demonstrated ability to advise across commercial, product, financing, and international business matters.
- 03Significant experience with structured finance, capital markets, corporate finance, or other complex financing transactions.
- 04Strong understanding of tax considerations arising from debt and equity instruments, credit arrangements, leases, asset financings, derivatives, hedging, and other financial products.
- 05Meaningful experience reviewing and negotiating complex commercial agreements and converting technical tax issues into workable contractual solutions.
- 06Experience advising product and business teams on new offerings, pricing and revenue models, customer arrangements, and the scaling of commercial activities.
- 07Experience supporting international expansion, market entry, cross-border operating models, and global commercial arrangements.
- 08Experience advising on large-scale infrastructure, energy, technology, or other capital-intensive arrangements. Experience with compute, data centers, digital infrastructure, or long-term capacity agreements is a plus.
What we offer
- 01This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
- 02We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
- 03Offer relocation assistance.