Power Land Developer, Development & Power Projects
WFA Digital Insight
OpenAI’s Power Land Developer sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure and traditional energy projects, giving engineers a rare chance to shape the physical backbone of next‑gen models. Reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead, the role owns the end‑to‑end advancement of 1‑3 powered‑land sites, from utility applications to risk registers. What makes this position distinct is its blend of technical utility coordination with strategic hand‑off packaging for deeper diligence, meaning you’ll translate raw study data into actionable schedules and budgets. The team’s focus on repeatable playbooks also offers a chance to embed your process expertise across multiple geographies, while collaborating closely with land, environmental, and community leads.
Job Description
About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options. About the Role The Power Land Developer; Development & Power Projects will support the advancement of powered-land opportunities across the portfolio, reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. This role will own day-to-day development execution across approximately 1–3 active sites depending on complexity, including utility applications, interconnection requests, study follow-through, queue milestones, consultant workstreams, schedule and risk management, and readiness handoff for opportunities advancing to deeper diligence, commercial commitment, or execution. The role translates study and utility findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications for portfolio decisions. Responsibilities - Manage day-to-day advancement of powered-land opportunities from intake through readiness.
- Own utility application and interconnection follow-through across active powered-land opportunities, including utility inputs, study responses, and queue milestones.
- Scope and manage external studies and consultant workstreams needed to validate readiness.
- Track development schedules, dependencies, risk registers, site-readiness milestones, and key budget implications.
- Translate technical findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications and escalate material blockers or trade-offs to the Development & Power Project Lead.
- Partner with land, environmental, economic development, and community affairs leads to align project advancement.
- Support expansion planning, infrastructure sequencing, and long-term power-risk mitigation.
- Define readiness criteria and prepare handoff packages for opportunities moving into deeper diligence or execution.
- Help build repeatable playbooks for powered-land development across geographies.
- Strong understanding of utility coordination, interconnection processes, and development scheduling.
- Experience managing multi-party workstreams across developers, utilities, consultants, and agencies.
- Ability to track multiple complex sites concurrently and translate uncertainty into clear actions.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
How to Stand Out
- Highlight your experience with utility interconnection processes; include concrete project examples in your resume.
- Prepare a brief case study showing how you turned study data into schedule and budget recommendations.
- Emphasize mastery of remote‑collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, project‑management platforms) during interviews.
- Mention any familiarity with AI or data‑center infrastructure to align with OpenAI’s mission.
- Ask about the handoff package and playbook development process to demonstrate understanding of the role’s end‑to‑end flow.
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