Development Planner, Industrial Compute

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and oversee a multi-year portfolio strategy for data center shell capacity in key geographical areas.

• Convert compute predictions, IT-load needs, rack-density expectations, power timelines, cooling demands, and deployment schedules into site and building specifications.

• Assess when shell capacity needs to be secured, designed, built, commissioned, and prepared for technical fit-out.

• Merge land, utility, interconnection, permitting, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and network readiness timelines into a cohesive capacity overview.

• Identify capacity shortages, scheduling conflicts, stranded-capacity threats, and dependencies that might hinder timely infrastructure operations.

• Develop scenario models that compare self-building, leasing, colocation, and strategic development-partner alternatives.

• Analyze delivery pathways based on schedule, cost, control, flexibility, reliability, scalability, and execution risks.

• Suggest phases for campus, building, and utility that maintain options while meeting immediate deployment needs.

• Review third-party proposals, facilities, schedules, technical specifications, and commercial structures against OpenAI’s standards.

• Collaborate with capacity planning, energy, real estate, site development, design, construction, commissioning, networking, finance, legal, and commercial teams.

• Set planning assumptions, readiness criteria, decision thresholds, and governance for progressing opportunities into execution.

• Develop dashboards and executive-ready materials that convey capacity supply, demand, timing, assumptions, dependencies, and significant risks.

• Assist in investment, build-versus-partner, geographic prioritization, and portfolio allocation choices.

• Establish repeatable planning frameworks and playbooks for scaling shell-capacity decisions across various regions and infrastructure generations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in data center development, infrastructure planning, capacity planning, real estate development, construction planning, program controls, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience in developing or managing portfolio-level strategies across multiple data center locations, buildings, or infrastructure initiatives.

• Deep understanding of the data center development lifecycle, which includes site readiness, power delivery, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operational handover.

• Capability to convert technical and demand specifications into facility capacity, scheduling, and phasing decisions.

• Strong quantitative and scenario modeling abilities, including the capacity to work with incomplete or evolving assumptions.

• Experience in assessing competing delivery strategies and articulating cost, schedule, flexibility, and risk trade-offs.

• Excellent cross-functional program leadership skills and the ability to foster alignment across technical, commercial, and operational teams.

• Outstanding written communication and executive presentation skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where requirements, assumptions, and timelines may shift rapidly.

• Preferred: experience in planning hyperscale data center campuses or infrastructure for high-density computing.

• Preferred: knowledge of powered land development, utility and interconnection schedules, and campus-level power phasing.

• Preferred: experience in evaluating self-build, build-to-suit, wholesale colocation, and third-party development models.

• Preferred: understanding of high-density electrical, mechanical, cooling, and network infrastructure needs.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with developers, capital partners, colocation providers, utilities, engineering firms, and construction organizations.

• Preferred: experience in creating portfolio planning systems, capacity dashboards, or executive decision frameworks for large infrastructure programs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

• 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

• 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

• Wellness stipends

• Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances