Workplace
remote
Employment
Full-Time
Published
Jul 27, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options. About the Role The Power Land Developer; Development & Power Projects will support the advancement of powered-land opportunities across the portfolio, reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. This role will own day-to-day development execution across approximately 1–3 active sites depending on complexity, including utility applications, interconnection requests, study follow-through, queue milestones, consultant workstreams, schedule and risk management, and readiness handoff for opportunities advancing to deeper diligence, commercial commitment, or execution. The role translates study and utility findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications for portfolio decisions. Responsibilities - Manage day-to-day advancement of powered-land opportunities from intake through readiness. - Own utility application and interconnection follow-through across active powered-land opportunities, including utility inputs, study responses, and queue milestones. - Scope and manage external studies and consultant workstreams needed to validate readiness. - Track development schedules, dependencies, risk registers, site-readiness milestones, and key budget implications. - Translate technical findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications and escalate material blockers or trade-offs to the Development & Power Project Lead. - Partner with land, environmental, economic development, and community affairs leads to align project advancement. - Support expansion planning, infrastructure sequencing, and long-term power-risk mitigation. - Define readiness criteria and
Requirements
Department: Scaling; Team: Datacenter Design