Clean Energy & Emerging Tech Strategy Lead

OpenAI; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI seeks a senior leader to own infrastructure clean energy strategy, enabling resilient, low-carbon compute and data center growth in Seattle. You will translate emerging energy options into practical deployment pathways, balancing reliability with cost and regulatory considerations.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, and finance teams to advance sustainable infrastructure initiatives and align with OpenAI's environmental

Qualifications

• 15+ years in energy technology, infrastructure sustainability, clean energy procurement, power markets, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of power systems, low-carbon energy, grid constraints, reliability, and large-scale deployment.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies, structuring pilots, or moving early-stage solutions to commercial use.
• Ability to balance sustainability objectives with reliability, cost, schedule, regulatory, and operational constraints.
• Proven cross-functional leadership across technical, commercial, policy, and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, written communication, and executive-summary skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, and energy efficiency.
• Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways to move tech from concept to credible execution.
• Translate options into implications for reliability, cost, carbon, regulatory, and operations.
• Partner with regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align choices with needs.
• Track external market, policy, utility, and technology developments.
• Build repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and playbooks for sustainability initiatives.

Skills

Experience in energy infra

Power systems & grid reliability

Emerging tech pilots

Sustainability vs cost/reliability

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical & executive communication

Job description

OpenAI seeks a senior leader to own infrastructure clean energy strategy, enabling resilient, low-carbon compute and data center growth in Seattle. You will translate emerging energy options into practical deployment pathways, balancing reliability with cost and regulatory considerations.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, and finance teams to advance sustainable infrastructure initiatives and align with OpenAI's environmental