The opportunity
OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options.
What you'll do
Own the stage-gate path from exclusivity and commercial terms through desktop: diligence, confirmatory diligence, site closing, and handoff into design, construction, and operations.
Validate power pathways with Power and utility partners, including service: options, interconnection and delivery sequencing, readiness assumptions, schedule exposure, cost implications, and decision points.
Turn each development phase into a disciplined action list with owners,: deadlines, closure criteria, open evidence, and escalation paths; drive the list to closure rather than simply reporting status.
Translate power, land, civil, environmental, access, entitlement, and: permitting constraints into a building-level deployment plan with clear sequencing and target deployment timing for each building.
Coordinate site access, exclusivity, LOI, commercial terms, financing: assumptions, and closing requirements with Commercial, Legal, Finance, Power, Land, and other partner teams.
Define the desktop diligence scope, expected 15–30 day deliverables, and go /: no-go criteria; then govern the 90–120 day confirmatory diligence plan.
What they're looking for
- Set and track ECDs for easements, offsite improvements, well and pipeline: locating, environmental studies, water-well testing, geotechnical reports, additional land, incentives, and other site-specific workstreams.
- Scope and manage diligence vendors and consultants, keeping their outputs: tied to decisions, schedule, cost, action-list closure, and residual risk.
- Maintain the integrated development schedule, budget implications, dependency: tracker, risk register, mitigation plan, and executive escalation cadence.
- Deliver executive-ready advance, defer, or stop recommendations and prepare: the readiness package for transition into design, construction, and operations.
