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OpenAI's Central Procurement – Hardware Operations team is seeking an Asset Compliance Program Lead to establish cross-business frameworks for reliable lifecycle visibility over hardware-related financial assets and capital equipment. This senior individual-contributor role sits within Finance and partners across hardware business units, Accounting, Financial Risk Management, Procurement, contract manufacturers, and third-party custodians.
You will design and scale the end-to-end asset-compliance operating model covering acquisition and capitalization, custody and location tracking, transfers, lifecycle events, inventory and verification, impairment or retirement, and audit-evidence retention. Key responsibilities include defining the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap that connects requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory data, physical custody, transfers, and financial records.
You will establish clear ownership and control points across OpenAI teams, suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics providers, and other third-party custodians. This includes building 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, and incomplete audit evidence.
The role requires establishing an initial baseline of asset exposure and control gaps, then prioritizing remediation based on financial, operational, custody, and reporting risk. You will identify recurring issues and use process, system, workflow, automation, and AI-enabled improvements to prevent repeat problems and improve stakeholder experience. You'll shape policy and governance improvements by bringing operational evidence and risk findings to decision-makers, and define executive reporting on asset completeness, control performance, audit readiness, and remediation progress.
This is a hands-on role that balances detailed problem-solving with cross-functional influence. You'll operate in complex hardware environments including contract manufacturing, supplier-held assets, manufacturing equipment, global custody, and physical inventory verification. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in hardware operations, supply chain, manufacturing, asset management, procurement operations, audit, or similarly control-intensive environments, with demonstrated systems fluency in ERP platforms and data flows across procurement, purchasing, receiving, inventory, and general ledger systems.
