Power Land Development Lead

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across multiple sites, translating studies into actionable schedules and budgets. You will manage utility applications, interconnection follow-through, and risk, cost, and schedule implications for portfolio decisions.

The role collaborates with land, environmental, and community teams to align advancement. This individual contributor role focuses on day-to-day execution across 1–3 active sites, building playbooks for

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.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day advancement of powered-land opportunities from intake through readiness.
• Own utility application and interconnection follow-through across active 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 schedule, budget, and risk implications and accelerate blockers 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.

Skills

Communication

Documentation

Project coordination

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across multiple sites, translating studies into actionable schedules and budgets. You will manage utility applications, interconnection follow-through, and risk, cost, and schedule implications for portfolio decisions.

The role collaborates with land, environmental, and community teams to align advancement. This individual contributor role focuses on day-to-day execution across 1–3 active sites, building playbooks for