# Strategic Compute Capacity Planning Lead

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $341k – $397k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Capacity Planning, demand forecasting, infrastructure strategy, roi modeling, financial planning, scenario planning, resource allocation, Strategic Partnerships, gpu infrastructure, cpu infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead OpenAI's capacity planning, allocation, and forecasting for GPU, CPU, and storage infrastructure. Translate research/product demand into disciplined plans, model tradeoffs/ROI, and build strategic operating models and executive cadences for infrastructure decisions.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build the operating model for capacity planning across GPUs, CPUs, storage, and other critical infrastructure.
- Forecast demand across training, inference, research, product, and enterprise workloads.
- Translate demand forecasts into infrastructure requirements, including compute shapes, timing, location, vendor needs, and financial plans.
- Develop frameworks for allocating scarce capacity across competing research, product, and business priorities.
- Model ROI, total cost of ownership, utilization, and strategic tradeoffs for major compute and infrastructure decisions.
- Partner with Strategic Partnerships and infrastructure teams on capacity deals, vendor strategies, and supply commitments.
- Build scenario plans for demand spikes, supply constraints, product launches, and changes to the research roadmap.
- Establish an executive operating cadence for capacity reviews, allocation decisions, forecast updates, and escalations.
- Create clear visibility into supply gaps, demand risks, utilization tradeoffs, and infrastructure investment choices.
- Move capacity planning from an ad hoc process to a rigorous, repeatable, and forward-looking strategic function.

## Requirements
- Strong experience in strategic planning, finance, operations, infrastructure strategy, partnerships, or complex commercial deals.
- Ability to translate technical requirements and uncertain demand signals into clear operating and financial plans.
- Experience evaluating infrastructure investments through ROI, cost, utilization, and scenario-based frameworks.
- Comfortable working across Research, Product, Engineering, Finance, and business teams with different priorities and planning horizons.
- Ability to create decision-making frameworks for allocating scarce resources across competing needs.
- Strategic judgment paired with a willingness to work hands-on, especially when building a new function or operating process.
- Strong communication skills to communicate complex tradeoffs clearly and drive alignment with senior technical and business leaders.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where supply, demand, and organizational priorities can change quickly.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in infrastructure strategy or complex commercial deals.

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