Openai
Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead
Overview
We are seeking an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead to develop and execute the sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global infrastructure portfolio, translating environmental priorities and external commitments into practical operating requirements.
About Openai
OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building and operating the infrastructure required to support frontier AI at unprecedented scale. The organization works across data center development, power, design and construction, hardware, supply chain, deployment, facilities operations, and external partnerships.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 12+ years of experience in sustainability, infrastructure operations, environmental strategy, data center infrastructure, the built environment, or a related field.
- Experience leading sustainability or operational-improvement programs across a large, complex, and geographically distributed organization.
- Demonstrated ability to translate high-level environmental objectives into practical engineering, procurement, construction, and operational requirements.
- Strong understanding of carbon, water, materials, waste, circularity, and lifecycle considerations within physical infrastructure.
- Experience building metrics, governance systems, and executive reporting for complex operational programs.
- Ability to evaluate technical, financial, environmental, regulatory, and reputational tradeoffs together.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
- Experience working with external partners, suppliers, regulators, policymakers, or industry organizations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure.
- Translate sustainability objectives into actionable requirements for site selection, design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations.
- Establish decision frameworks that balance environmental impact with infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, cost, and scalability.
- Develop strategies addressing operational and embodied carbon, water stewardship, materials, construction impacts, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle management.
- Partner with data center engineering and operations teams to identify practical improvements in infrastructure efficiency, resource use, resilience, and operational performance.
- Incorporate sustainability considerations into self-build, colocation, cloud, and strategic infrastructure-partner decisions.
- Establish measurable goals, operating metrics, dashboards, and governance mechanisms for infrastructure sustainability programs.
- Improve the quality, consistency, and auditability of environmental and operational data across internal teams and external partners.
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