Remote Infrastructure Sustainability Leader

Alfie; United States; Remote; USD 223,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead to develop and execute the sustainability strategy for its global compute infrastructure. This senior role will translate environmental priorities into practical requirements across site selection, design, construction, procurement, and operations, ensuring environmental goals are integrated with reliability and scale.

The role requires executive-level judgment, collaboration with multiple teams including power, hardware,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in sustainability, infrastructure operations, data center infrastructure, or related field.
• Experience leading sustainability or operational-improvement programs across a large, distributed organization.
• Ability to translate environmental objectives into practical engineering, procurement, construction, and operational requirements.
• Strong understanding of carbon, water, materials, waste, and lifecycle considerations in physical infrastructure.
• Experience building metrics, governance, and executive reporting for complex programs.

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 balancing environmental impact with reliability, speed, cost, and scalability.
• Develop strategies addressing operational and embodied carbon, water stewardship, materials, construction impacts, waste, circularity, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with data center engineering and operations teams to identify practical improvements in efficiency, resource use, resilience, and performance.
• Incorporate sustainability into self-build, colocation, cloud, and partner decisions.
• Establish measurable goals, dashboards, and governance for sustainability programs.
• Improve data quality, consistency, and auditability across internal and external partners.
• Work with hardware, manufacturing, and supply chain teams on lifecycle strategies for infrastructure equipment.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine which pilots move to scaled deployment.
• Develop business cases communicating environmental impact, cost, schedule, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Public Policy on sustainability positions and regulatory developments.

Skills

Sustainability leadership

Infrastructure operations

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Data center design knowledge

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead to develop and execute the sustainability strategy for its global compute infrastructure. This senior role will translate environmental priorities into practical requirements across site selection, design, construction, procurement, and operations, ensuring environmental goals are integrated with reliability and scale.

The role requires executive-level judgment, collaboration with multiple teams including power, hardware,