Remote Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Leader

The Sustainability Grid; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead to develop and execute sustainability strategy for its global compute infrastructure. You will translate environmental priorities into practical operating requirements across site selection, data center design, construction, equipment procurement, deployment, and ongoing operations.

The role partners with infrastructure operations, engineering, construction, power, hardware, supply chain, finance, legal, public policy,

Qualifications

• Experience leading sustainability or operational-improvement programs across a large, complex, and geographically distributed organization.
• Ability to translate high-level environmental objectives into practical engineering, procurement, construction, and operational requirements.
• Strong understanding of carbon, water, materials, waste, circularity, and lifecycle considerations within physical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive sustainability strategy for OpenAI's global compute infrastructure.
• Translate sustainability objectives into actionable requirements for site selection, design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations.
• Establish decision frameworks that balance environmental impact with infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, cost, and scalability.
• Develop strategies addressing operational and embodied carbon, water stewardship, materials, construction impacts, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle management.
• Partner with data center engineering and operations teams to identify practical improvements in infrastructure efficiency, resource use, resilience, and operational performance.
• Incorporate sustainability considerations into self-build, colocation, cloud, and strategic infrastructure-partner decisions.
• Establish measurable goals, operating metrics, dashboards, and governance mechanisms for infrastructure sustainability programs.
• Improve the quality, consistency, and auditability of environmental and operational data across internal teams and external partners.
• Work with hardware, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to develop supplier requirements and lifecycle strategies for infrastructure equipment.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, design approaches, and operating practices and determine which should move from pilot programs into scaled deployment.

Skills

Sustainability leadership

Data center operations

Environmental strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive reporting

Infrastructure optimization

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead to develop and execute sustainability strategy for its global compute infrastructure. You will translate environmental priorities into practical operating requirements across site selection, data center design, construction, equipment procurement, deployment, and ongoing operations.

The role partners with infrastructure operations, engineering, construction, power, hardware, supply chain, finance, legal, public policy,