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Land and Data Center Development

OpenAI · San Francisco · On-site

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About OpenAI

Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.

About the role

We’re looking for a commercial real estate (CRE) development professional to help secure land and data-center capacity for OpenAI’s compute infrastructure. This is a combined role spanning land acquisition and development, data-center leasing, and real estate acquisitions. The ideal candidate is particularly strong in land and can also contribute across data-center transactions. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong commercial real estate development experience, with depth in land acquisition, site control, and development feasibility
  • A record of sourcing, structuring, and negotiating complex real estate agreements
  • Ability to work across land transactions and data-center leasing, with sound judgment about their different commercial and development requirements
  • Sound commercial judgment and the ability to assess deal economics, identify risks, and make practical recommendations
  • Experience working across legal, finance, engineering, and operations teams to move transactions forward
  • Clear communication and strong ownership of complex negotiations, competing priorities, and uncertain timelines
More about this role

OpenAI’s Compute organization builds the infrastructure that powers frontier AI training and inference. This work brings together commercial, technical, strategy, and operations teams to secure and develop the sites and capacity needed for large-scale compute deployment.

We partner across real estate, power, engineering, legal, finance, and delivery to connect infrastructure needs with viable development opportunities and executable commercial agreements.

We’re looking for a commercial real estate (CRE) development professional to help secure land and data-center capacity for OpenAI’s compute infrastructure. This is a combined role spanning land acquisition and development, data-center leasing, and real estate acquisitions. The ideal candidate is particularly strong in land and can also contribute across data-center transactions.

You’ll source and evaluate opportunities, structure and negotiate agreements, and coordinate commercial and technical diligence. Working with legal, finance, engineering, and development partners, you’ll connect transaction decisions with infrastructure requirements and carry opportunities through agreement execution and handoff.

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