Powered Land Developer, Development & Power Projects

About the Team

OpenAI 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 Powered Land Developer 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 prepare handoff packages for opportunities moving into deeper diligence or execution.

- Help build repeatable playbooks for powered-land development across geographies.

Qualifications

- 6+ years in energy infrastructure, energy project development, site development, data center development, or related project delivery roles.

- Strong understanding of utility coordination, interconnection processes, and development scheduling.

- Experience managing multi-party workstreams across developers, utilities, consultants, and agencies.

- Ability to track multiple complex sites concurrently and translate uncertainty into clear actions.

- Strong communication and documentation skills.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. 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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