The opportunity
OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Power Execution team owns the strategy and execution required to secure reliable, scalable, and economically resilient power for OpenAI’s global data center portfolio.
What you'll do
Develop and maintain OpenAI’s energy regulatory strategy across priority U.S.: markets and, as needed, emerging geographies for infrastructure expansion.
Coordinate closely with Public Policy and Government Affairs to shape energy: regulatory priorities, engagement plans, messaging, and positions before utilities, public utility commissions, grid operators, state energy offices, and other relevant policymakers.
Translate project requirements—load size, timing, reliability, cost, carbon,: and expansion needs—into clear regulatory objectives and external engagement strategies.
Lead regulatory diligence for powered-land, data center, utility, supply, and: energy-infrastructure opportunities; identify applicable tariffs, service rules, approval pathways, filing requirements, queue and interconnection constraints, and material regulatory risks.
Support transactional work with Legal, Commercial, Procurement, Finance, and: project teams, including regulatory review of utility service agreements, special contracts, tariff arrangements, interconnection agreements, PPAs, supply structures, and related energy transactions.
Coordinate regulatory submissions, testimony, comments, data requests,: stakeholder meetings, and approval processes with internal teams, outside counsel, consultants, utilities, and other counterparties.
What they're looking for
- Monitor utility rate cases, integrated resource plans, transmission and: interconnection proceedings, RTO/ISO market developments, capacity and reliability rules, and state and federal policy changes that could affect cost, schedule, reliability, or growth.
- Build decision frameworks and executive-ready analyses that compare: regulatory pathways, clarify tradeoffs, surface escalation points, and support go / no-go and investment decisions.
- Develop durable relationships with utilities, regulators, grid operators,: policymakers, industry groups, and external advisors while coordinating carefully with OpenAI’s public-policy and government-affairs owners.
- Create repeatable playbooks, trackers, and governance for regulatory: diligence, transaction support, approvals, and cross-functional escalation across the infrastructure portfolio.
