The opportunity
OpenAI’s Central Procurement – Hardware Operations team is building scalable, AI-enabled operating foundations for a rapidly growing hardware footprint. We help the business move quickly while maintaining the data quality and controls needed to manage financial and operational risk responsibly.
What you'll do
Design and scale the end-to-end asset-compliance operating model across: acquisition and capitalization, custody and location tracking, transfers, lifecycle events, inventory and verification, impairment or retirement, and audit-evidence retention.
Define the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap, connecting: requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory data, physical custody, transfers, and financial records.
Establish clear ownership and control points across OpenAI teams, suppliers,: contract manufacturers, logistics providers, and other third-party custodians.
Build 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, unresolved exceptions, and incomplete audit evidence.
Establish an initial baseline of asset exposure and control gaps, then: prioritize remediation based on financial, operational, custody, and reporting risk.
Identify recurring issues and use process, system, workflow, automation, and: AI-enabled improvements to prevent repeat problems and improve the stakeholder experience.
What they're looking for
- Shape policy, standards, and governance improvements by bringing operational: evidence, implementation insight, and risk findings to the appropriate decision-makers.
- Define executive reporting on asset completeness, control performance, audit: readiness, remediation progress, and emerging risks.
- Have 8+ years of experience in hardware operations, supply chain,: manufacturing, asset management, procurement operations, audit, risk and controls, or a similarly control-intensive environment; including experience owning or improving end-to-end asset, custody, inventory, or third-party control processes.
- Are experienced in operating in complex hardware environments, such as: contract manufacturing, supplier- or third-party-held assets, manufacturing equipment or tooling, global custody, logistics, or physical inventory and verification.
