Powered-Land Development Lead, Energy Projects

Triwill Group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer for Development & Power Projects to drive advancement of powered-land opportunities across the portfolio. You will manage day-to-day development execution for 1–3 sites, handling utility applications, interconnections, studies, milestones, and risk management.

The role translates study findings into schedule and budget implications for portfolio decisions, partnering with land, environment, and community 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 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.

Skills

Energy project development

Utility coordination

Multi-party coordination

Scheduling

Communication

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Power Land Developer for Development & Power Projects to drive advancement of powered-land opportunities across the portfolio. You will manage day-to-day development execution for 1–3 sites, handling utility applications, interconnections, studies, milestones, and risk management.

The role translates study findings into schedule and budget implications for portfolio decisions, partnering with land, environment, and community leads to align project advancement.