Geography and International Growth Lead

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International infrastructure expansion lead shaping OpenAI’s AI infrastructure ecosystem. Evaluating new geographies, coordinating diligence, and delivering executive-ready market-entry recommendations.

Responsibilities:

  • Build market-entry frameworks for international infrastructure geographies, including power availability, land readiness, regulatory posture, commercial fit, and execution risk
  • Assess priority regions and countries against OpenAI’s long-term compute, energy, sustainability, policy, and operational objectives
  • Coordinate cross-functional geographic diligence with energy, policy, commercial, legal, finance, procurement, engineering, and site-readiness stakeholders
  • Lead early stakeholder mapping and engagement strategy with utilities, regulators, government entities, developers, capital partners, and other market participants
  • Translate regional findings into executive-ready recommendations, including go / no-go decisions, gating risks, required partnerships, and sequencing options
  • Identify market, regulatory, land-control, permitting, community, and operating dependencies affecting speed, scale, cost, or strategic fit
  • Partner with energy regulatory and policy teams to align geography strategy with OpenAI’s external engagement and infrastructure narrative
  • Build repeatable playbooks, decision criteria, and tracking mechanisms for evaluating and activating new geographies

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in infrastructure strategy, site selection, energy, data centers, economic development, corporate development, international expansion, or related roles
  • Experience evaluating new markets or geographies for large-scale infrastructure, technology, energy, or real estate development
  • Strong understanding of how power, land, policy, permitting, commercial structure, and operating constraints shape infrastructure expansion decisions
  • Proven ability to coordinate complex cross-functional workstreams and synthesize ambiguous inputs into clear recommendations
  • Comfort operating across jurisdictions, external stakeholders, and fast-changing policy or regulatory environments
  • Excellent executive communication, analytical judgment, and documentation skills

Benefits:

  • Offers equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays
  • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
  • Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may also be provided
  • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees