Commissioning Program Manager — Scale Infrastructure & KPIs

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks a Commissioning Program Manager to design and scale the operating systems for infrastructure commissioning programs, owning standards, dashboards, and KPIs across the portfolio. You will translate field needs into repeatable playbooks, templates, and reporting mechanisms spanning construction readiness through turnover.

You will collaborate with commissioning and construction leads to ensure adoption, data integrity, and continuous improvement across active

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, construction management, engineering, commissioning, facilities, project controls, or infrastructure delivery.
• Hands‑on experience in construction or complex infrastructure environments, with field-work planning, coordination, tracking, testing, and turnover.
• Experience developing or improving program standards, SOPs, process maps, playbooks, trackers, stage gates, or operating rhythms.
• Strong comfort with data, metrics, dashboards, and reporting, including KPI definitions and data quality issues.
• Experience with commissioning, QA/QC, inspections, turnover processes; direct commissioning is preferred.
• Experience with tools/platforms like Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, CxAlloy, Bluebeam, Smartsheet, Excel/Sheets, Looker, Tableau, Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain commissioning program standards, playbooks, process maps, templates, checklists, stage gates, and acceptance criteria.
• Establish workflows for planning, construction readiness, QA/QC, issue management, document control, testing evidence, turnover, and lessons learned.
• Define and maintain commissioning KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards for readiness, inspection, deficiencies, and turnover health.
• Own requirements and workflows across trackers, construction management platforms, QA/QC systems, and BI tools.
• Partner with leads to translate field needs into scalable processes and tools for multiple projects.
• Monitor adoption, data quality, and effectiveness of standards; drive improvements with evolving needs.
• Establish reporting cadences and executive-ready insights on health, trends, blockers, and decisions.

Skills

Program management

Construction management

Data dashboards

KPIs

Process design

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Reporting

Tools

Procore

Autodesk Construction Cloud

CxAlloy

Bluebeam

Smartsheet

Excel

Google Sheets

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks a Commissioning Program Manager to design and scale the operating systems for infrastructure commissioning programs, owning standards, dashboards, and KPIs across the portfolio. You will translate field needs into repeatable playbooks, templates, and reporting mechanisms spanning construction readiness through turnover.

You will collaborate with commissioning and construction leads to ensure adoption, data integrity, and continuous improvement across active