Powered Land Development Lead

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Powered Land Developer to drive day-to-day development across 1–3 active sites, coordinating utility applications, interconnection inputs, study follow-through, and schedule milestones.

This individual contributor role translates study findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications for portfolio decisions, and partners with land, environmental, economic development, and community affairs leads to align project advancement.

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 escalate 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.

Skills

Energy infrastructure

Utility coordination

Multi-party coordination

Project scheduling

Documentation skills

Communication

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Powered Land Developer to drive day-to-day development across 1–3 active sites, coordinating utility applications, interconnection inputs, study follow-through, and schedule milestones.

This individual contributor role translates study findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications for portfolio decisions, and partners with land, environmental, economic development, and community affairs leads to align project advancement.