Powered-Land Development Specialist

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

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Powered Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across the portfolio. You will own day-to-day development across 1–3 active sites, coordinating utility applications, interconnection studies, and schedule/risk management to enable readiness handoffs.

You will translate study findings into actionable schedule and budget implications, partner with land, environmental, and community affairs teams, and help build repeatable playbooks for multi-site development across

Qualifications

• 6+ years in energy infrastructure, energy project development, site development, data center development, or related 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 inputs, 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 as needed.
• 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 deeper diligence or execution.
• Help build repeatable playbooks for powered-land development across geographies.

Skills

Energy project development

Utility coordination

Multi-party coordination

Schedule management

Communication

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Powered Land Developer to advance powered-land opportunities across the portfolio. You will own day-to-day development across 1–3 active sites, coordinating utility applications, interconnection studies, and schedule/risk management to enable readiness handoffs.

You will translate study findings into actionable schedule and budget implications, partner with land, environmental, and community affairs teams, and help build repeatable playbooks for multi-site development across