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Hardware Finance Manager

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Francisco

Employer listed it 2 months ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Been open since 2 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.

Salary

$234k to $260k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Francisco

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid"

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“Prior hardware experience and deep, hands-on expertise in at least two relevant domains are required.”
“AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.”

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About the role

About the Team

OpenAI’s acquisition of io marks our entry into consumer hardware and our ambition to define the next human–computer interface. Success in hardware requires strong financial stewardship across the full product cost stack—from early design and sourcing decisions through manufacturing, logistics, inventory, returns, and warranty.

Hardware Finance works across Product, Supply Chain, Operations, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance to connect business decisions to product cost, inventory, cash, COGS, and margin.

About the Role

We are seeking a Hardware Finance Manager to own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end. The initial assignment will depend on business priorities and the successful candidate’s expertise. It may include BOM and product cost, manufacturing variance analysis, inventory planning, logistics, returns and warranty, customer support, or another connected set of hardware-finance responsibilities.

This is an individual-contributor role with broad scope. Prior hardware experience and deep, hands-on expertise in at least two relevant domains are required. The person will be expected to operate independently, build reusable processes and analytical workflows, and remain accountable for the analysis, judgment, and recommendations.

In this role, you will:

Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end.

Own forecasting, close, and business variance analysis for the assigned scope.

Provide hardware leadership with clear variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking signals that connect business and supplier decisions to inventory, cash, COGS, and margin.

Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish the financial data, systems, and dashboards needed to support analysis.

Ensure data integrity and governance through clear definitions, ownership, validation checks, controls, and review processes.

Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes so they remain reliable and can scale as the organization grows.

Build strong cross-functional relationships and identify material risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs early.

Develop practical scenarios and recommendations that help leadership make informed decisions.

Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance.

Drive alignment without formal authority and communicate complex financial issues clearly to senior stakeholders.

Develop expertise in an adjacent COGS or inventory domain as business priorities evolve.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

8+ years of prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.

Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple relevant domains, with demonstrated ownership in at least two.

Demonstrated leadership of ambiguous cross-functional initiatives with material impact.

Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.

Evidence of building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.

Requirements

·8+ years of prior consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
·Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple relevant domains, with demonstrated ownership in at least two.
·Demonstrated leadership of ambiguous cross-functional initiatives with material impact.
·Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
·Evidence of building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.

Benefits

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