Hyperscale Infra Delivery Program Manager

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization seeks a Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery Operations to drive execution across large-scale AI infrastructure deployments. You will orchestrate cross-functional delivery programs spanning planning through production readiness, owning program health across engineering, construction, operations, supply chain, and partners.

Success requires exceptional program management, executive communication, systems thinking, and the ability to bring

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading complex technical programs or infrastructure delivery.
• Experience managing large cross-functional programs involving multiple engineering organizations.
• Strong understanding of program management methodologies, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Experience working with executive stakeholders and communicating program status at multiple levels.
• Proven ability to drive execution across organizations without direct reporting authority.
• Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, executive reviews, and operational mechanisms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent high-priority programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution for Industrial Compute infrastructure delivery programs from planning through operational handoff.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans spanning engineering, construction, hardware deployment, networking, commissioning, and operations.
• Identify schedule risks, dependency conflicts, and execution bottlenecks before they impact delivery.
• Develop executive-level reporting mechanisms that communicate program health, milestones, risks, mitigations, and critical decisions.
• Coordinate across Hardware Engineering, Network Engineering, Hardware Operations, Capacity Delivery, Security, Finance, Supply Chain, and external infrastructure partners.
• Drive operational readiness reviews before infrastructure enters production.
• Build standardized delivery processes, governance models, and operating cadences that scale across multiple global infrastructure programs.
• Manage cross-functional action tracking, decision logs, risk registers, and executive escalations.
• Establish program metrics and KPIs that improve predictability, transparency, and execution quality.
• Partner with leadership to continuously improve Industrial Compute delivery methodologies as our infrastructure portfolio grows.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Dependency management

Risk mitigation

Dashboard reporting

Multi-year programs

Stakeholder management

Job description

OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization seeks a Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery Operations to drive execution across large-scale AI infrastructure deployments. You will orchestrate cross-functional delivery programs spanning planning through production readiness, owning program health across engineering, construction, operations, supply chain, and partners.

Success requires exceptional program management, executive communication, systems thinking, and the ability to bring