# Inventory Manager

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $157k – $196k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Inventory Management, warehouse operations, cycle counting, ERP, wms, mes, barcode systems, material handling, internal logistics, receiving procedures, inventory reconciliation
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Build and operate inventory and internal logistics operations from the ground up for OpenAI's Robotics team. Hands-on role responsible for setting up stockrooms, executing daily inventory tasks, establishing processes, and scaling to multi-site factory operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build inventory operations from the ground up across various OpenAI facilities.
- Design and set up stockrooms, receiving areas, and material-storage locations, including selecting racks, shelving, bins, carts, labeling equipment, scanners, and other infrastructure.
- Personally execute core inventory activities, including receiving, labeling, putaway, picking, kitting, issuing, cycle counting, transfers, returns, and inventory adjustments.
- Establish practical receiving procedures that ensure incoming material is identified, recorded, inspected or quarantined when appropriate, and made available quickly.
- Hire, train, and manage contractors or onsite inventory administrators as volume and facility needs grow.
- Create location structures, naming conventions, barcode workflows, material-status controls, and standard work.
- Maintain accurate visibility into what inventory exists, where it is located, and whether it is available for use.
- Establish and maintain cycle-counting and physical-inventory programs, investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Own internal logistics and material movement between company facilities, including transfer processes, delivery schedules, chain of custody, transaction accuracy, and reconciliation.
- Develop appropriate controls for serialized, lot-controlled, high-value, consigned, returned, obsolete, and nonconforming material.
- Serve as the business owner for inventory tools and workflows.
- Partner with the systems team to translate operational needs into requirements, prioritize improvements, test new functionality, and drive adoption.
- Create procedures and training that allow inventory operations to be replicated consistently at new facilities.
- Identify inventory risks, shortages, excess material, unidentified material, and process breakdowns before they disrupt operations.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in inventory management, warehouse operations, materials operations, internal logistics, or a related field.
- Experience building or substantially improving an inventory operation, not only working within an established one.
- Strong working knowledge of receiving, putaway, picking, kitting, cycle counting, material transfers, inventory reconciliation, and physical inventory controls.
- Willingness to work directly in stockrooms, receiving areas, laboratories, and manufacturing spaces.
- Ability to move comfortably between strategic design and hands-on execution.
- Experience selecting and implementing physical inventory infrastructure such as racks, shelving, bins, labeling systems, barcode scanners, and material-handling equipment.
- Familiarity with ERP, WMS, MES, or inventory-management systems and the transactions required to maintain accurate inventory.
- Willingness to travel regularly among company facilities.

## Success Metrics
- Within the first 6 months: Turned empty or informal storage areas into organized, functional stockrooms.
- Established consistent receiving, storage, counting, and material-transfer processes across active facilities.
- Created reliable visibility into what inventory exists, where it is located, and whether it is available for use.
- Implemented practical location controls, labeling standards, transaction procedures, and cycle counting.
- Built a reliable inter-building logistics process with clear ownership and traceability.

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