# Asset Compliance Program Lead, Hardware

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $216k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** SAP, Oracle, ERP, Procurement Operations, Asset Management, Inventory Management, Supply Chain, Contract Manufacturing, Risk-Based Testing, Reconciliations, Audit Readiness, Workflow Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Physical Inventory, Third-Party Controls
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads the operating model, systems roadmap, controls, reconciliations, and verification practices for hardware assets across internal and third-party custody. Requires 8+ years in hardware operations, supply chain, asset management, procurement, audit, or risk and controls, plus ERP and audit-readiness experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and scale an 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.
- Define the authoritative asset record and systems roadmap connecting requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory data, physical custody, transfers, and financial records.
- Establish ownership and control points across internal teams, suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics providers, and other third-party custodians.
- Build lifecycle reconciliations and a scalable verification model across internal and third-party sites using risk-based inventories, sample testing, attestations, and corrective-action tracking.
- 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.
- Use process, system, workflow, automation, and AI-enabled improvements to prevent recurring issues and improve stakeholder experience.
- Shape policy, standards, and governance improvements using operational evidence, implementation insight, and risk findings.
- Define executive reporting on asset completeness, control performance, audit readiness, remediation progress, and emerging risks.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in hardware operations, supply chain, manufacturing, asset management, procurement operations, audit, risk and controls, or a similarly control-intensive environment.
- Experience owning or improving end-to-end asset, custody, inventory, or third-party control processes.
- Experience in complex hardware environments, including contract manufacturing, supplier- or third-party-held assets, manufacturing equipment or tooling, global custody, logistics, or physical inventory and verification.
- Systems fluency with ERP platforms such as SAP or Oracle and data flows among procurement, purchase orders, invoices, receiving, inventory, asset records, and the general ledger.
- Experience defining or improving asset-management, workflow, reporting, or control systems.
- Experience establishing audit readiness through risk-based testing, reconciliations, evidence reviews, and remediation.
- Ability to build practical operating models from ambiguity and influence senior stakeholders and third parties without formal authority.
- Practical judgment using AI for analysis, documentation, exception management, or workflow design while maintaining data protection, human review, and validation.
- Ability to turn complex, fragmented operations into practical standards, clear ownership, and scalable operating routines.
- Ability to balance detailed problem-solving and cross-functional influence with financial accuracy, audit readiness, risk management, and an enablement-focused approach.

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