New Geography and International Growth Lead

Leads strategy and execution planning for OpenAI’s expansion into new international infrastructure geographies. The role evaluates markets across power, land, policy, commercial, regulatory, and operational factors and turns ambiguous findings into executive recommendations and actionable growth plans.

About the job

Responsibilities

Build market-entry frameworks for international infrastructure geographies, including power availability, land readiness, regulatory posture, commercial fit, and execution risk.
Assess priority regions and countries against long-term compute, energy, sustainability, policy, and operational objectives.
Coordinate cross-functional geographic diligence with energy, policy, commercial, legal, finance, procurement, engineering, and site-readiness stakeholders.
Lead stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies with utilities, regulators, government entities, developers, capital partners, and other market participants.
Translate regional findings into executive-ready recommendations, including go/no-go decisions, gating risks, required partnerships, and sequencing options.
Identify market, regulatory, land-control, permitting, community, and operating dependencies affecting speed, scale, cost, or strategic fit.
Partner with energy regulatory and policy teams to align geography strategy with broader external engagement and infrastructure objectives.
Build repeatable playbooks, decision criteria, and tracking mechanisms for evaluating and activating new geographies.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in infrastructure strategy, site selection, energy, data centers, economic development, corporate development, international expansion, or related fields.
Experience evaluating new markets or geographies for large-scale infrastructure, technology, energy, or real estate development.
Strong understanding of how power, land, policy, permitting, commercial structure, and operating constraints shape infrastructure expansion decisions.
Ability to coordinate complex cross-functional workstreams and synthesize ambiguous inputs into clear recommendations.
Comfort operating across jurisdictions, external stakeholders, and changing policy or regulatory environments.
Excellent executive communication, analytical judgment, and documentation skills.

Skills

Infrastructure Strategy, Market Assessment, Site Selection, Energy, Data Centers, Regulatory Policy, Permitting, Stakeholder Engagement, Cross-Functional Coordination, Market Entry, Executive Communication, Economic Development, Corporate Development, International Expansion, Real Estate Development