Power Land Development Lead – Utilities & Projects

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

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across the portfolio, reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead. This individual contributor role will manage day-to-day development execution for 1–3 active sites, coordinating with utilities, consultants, and internal teams to move opportunities toward diligence or execution.

You will translate study findings into schedule, budget, and risk implications to inform portfolio decisions, define readiness

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 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 elevate 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.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across the portfolio, reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead. This individual contributor role will manage day-to-day development execution for 1–3 active sites, coordinating with utilities, consultants, and internal teams to move opportunities toward diligence or execution.

You will translate study findings into schedule, budget, and risk implications to inform portfolio decisions, define readiness