Geography and International Growth Lead

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

📋 Description

• Develop frameworks for market entry in international infrastructure sectors, focusing on power availability, land readiness, regulatory environment, commercial viability, and execution risks.

• Evaluate priority regions and countries in relation to OpenAI’s long-term objectives for compute, energy, sustainability, policy, and operations.

• Facilitate cross-functional geographic diligence involving stakeholders from energy, policy, commercial, legal, finance, procurement, engineering, and site readiness.

• Direct initial stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies with utilities, regulators, governmental bodies, developers, capital partners, and other market participants.

• Convert regional insights into executive-level recommendations, addressing go/no-go decisions, gating risks, necessary partnerships, and sequencing options.

• Recognize market, regulatory, land control, permitting, community, and operational dependencies that can impact speed, scale, cost, or strategic alignment.

• Collaborate with energy regulatory and policy teams to ensure geography strategies align with OpenAI’s external engagement and infrastructure narrative.

• Create repeatable playbooks, decision criteria, and tracking systems for assessing and activating new geographies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in infrastructure strategy, site selection, energy, data centers, economic development, corporate development, international expansion, or comparable roles.

• Proven experience in assessing new markets or regions for large-scale infrastructure, technology, energy, or real estate development projects.

• Deep understanding of how power, land, policy, permitting, commercial structures, and operational limitations influence infrastructure expansion decisions.

• Demonstrated capability to coordinate complex cross-functional workstreams and distill ambiguous inputs into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Ability to navigate across jurisdictions, engage with external stakeholders, and adapt to rapidly evolving policy or regulatory landscapes.

• Exceptional executive communication, analytical judgment, and documentation skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Offers equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter-related expenses (parking and transit).

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching contributions.

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birthing 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.

• Several paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year.

• Paid sick or safe time (1 hour for every 30 hours worked, or more as required by applicable state or local law).

• Support for mental health and wellness.

• Employer-sponsored basic life and disability coverage.

• Annual budget for learning and development.

• Daily meals provided in offices, along with meal delivery credits as eligible.

• Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.

• Matching for charitable donations and wellness stipends may also be available.

• Performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.