Procurement Enablement Lead

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Procurement Enablement Lead at OpenAI, you will improve how employees and stakeholders navigate procurement by simplifying workflows, enhancing guidance, and supporting scalable procurement experiences across the procurement lifecycle.
• You will partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to design and improve procurement intake, guidance, and workflow experiences, translate policies into clear business requirements, and support workflow configuration improvements across procurement systems.
• You will identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce manual work, analyze operational data and workflow metrics to uncover trends and friction points, and build operational reporting and KPI frameworks to support data-driven decision-making.
• You will support the rollout and adoption of new procurement processes and tools through testing, documentation, communications, training, and change management, while improving consistency, controls, and data quality across procurement workflows to support operational scalability and audit readiness.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Procurement Technology, Procurement Operations, Finance Operations, or related operational and systems-focused roles.
• Hands-on experience with procurement and finance platforms such as Zip, Oracle Fusion, VNDLY, Navan, Brex, or similar workflow and transaction systems.
• Deep operational knowledge across Source-to-Contract, Procure-to-Pay, Travel & Expense, and Contingent Workforce / Extended Workforce processes.
• Experience designing, improving, and scaling operational workflows, automation, and service delivery models in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, including experience working with operational metrics, workflow data, reporting tools, and large datasets to drive process improvements and operational decision-making.
• Experience applying AI tools, including GPT-based capabilities, automation tooling, analytics, or decision support solutions to improve operational workflows and internal service delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model (3 days per week in the office) with relocation assistance for new employees.
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI innovation at OpenAI, contributing to the safe and beneficial deployment of artificial intelligence.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Commitment to fair chance hiring practices, considering qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records consistent with applicable laws.

Skills & Technologies

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Hybrid

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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