Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead

OpenAI
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 223,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Environmental & SustainabilityExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Cross-functional leadership","Influencing senior stakeholders","Executive communication","Written and verbal communication","Operating in fast-moving environments"]

Develop and execute sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure, translating environmental priorities into practical requirements across site selection, data center design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations. Build frameworks, metrics, governance, and cross-functional programs to improve environmental performance while maintaining reliability, deployment speed, and scalability. Partner with internal teams and external infrastructure partners to drive carbon, water, materials, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle outcomes.

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Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead

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Job Summary

Develop and execute sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure, translating environmental priorities into practical requirements across site selection, data center design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations. Build frameworks, metrics, governance, and cross-functional programs to improve environmental performance while maintaining reliability, deployment speed, and scalability. Partner with internal teams and external infrastructure partners to drive carbon, water, materials, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle outcomes.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Environmental & Sustainability

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and maintain a comprehensive sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure.
  • •Translate sustainability objectives into actionable requirements across site selection, design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations.
  • •Establish decision frameworks that balance environmental impact with reliability, deployment speed, cost, and scalability.
  • •Develop strategies for operational and embodied carbon, water stewardship, materials, construction impacts, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle management.
  • •Build metrics, dashboards, governance mechanisms, and repeatable playbooks; improve auditability of environmental and operational data across internal teams and external partners.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 223,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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 large, complex, geographically distributed organizations.
  • •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.
Experience:12+ yearsSustainabilityInfrastructure operationsData centersBuilt environmentEnvironmental strategy
Skills:Cross-functional leadershipInfluencing senior stakeholdersExecutive communicationWritten and verbal communicationOperating in fast-moving environments

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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