Revenue Accounting Manager, Ads

About The Team

OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Technical Accounting to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows.

About The Role

This role will own accounting and controllership for OpenAI's advertising products. You will help build the financial foundation for Ads from early scale into durable operations, including revenue recognition, close, controls, reporting, reconciliations, and risk assessment across measurement logic, billing data, rev-share structures, incentives, credits, and emerging monetization models. You will be a finance partner to Product, Engineering, Technical Accounting, Go-To-Market, Tax, Legal, and Financial Systems. The role requires someone who can independently operate in ambiguity, design 0-to-1 processes and apply AI automation thoughtfully to support a rapidly evolving product environment.

We're Looking For Someone With

• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ads revenue accounting or controllership in a public company or high-growth late stage private company.
• CPA or equivalent expertise, with strong command of ASC 606 and practical judgment on variable consideration, principal-agent, incentives, credits, and revenue-share arrangements.
• Direct experience with ads, adtech, retail media, marketplace monetization, or a closely analogous high-volume usage-based revenue model.
• Proven ability to build 0-to-1 finance processes, then harden them into scalable close procedures, reconciliations, controls, and audit-ready evidence.
• Strong data fluency, including comfort validating high-volume calculations, tracing source-system data to billing and GL outputs, and partnering with data or engineering teams.
• Practical experience applying AI, analytics, or automation in a Finance org, with clear judgment about controls, review points, and limits of automation.
• Balanced materiality and risk judgment: able to quantify impact, identify root cause, assess control implications, and recommend proportionate action backed by evidence.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion ERP, revenue systems, billing platforms, or finance transformation work.
• A passion for technology, AI, and building financial infrastructure that lets new products scale responsibly.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Compensation Range

$162K - $180K