# Strategic Operations, Industrial Compute

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $225k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Cloud Infrastructure, Compute Infrastructure, Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, Gpus, Cpus, Storage, Networking, Supply Chain, Strategic Planning, Commercial Strategy, Vendor Economics, Capacity Planning, KPIs, Executive Communication
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads company-level strategy and operating mechanisms for large-scale AI compute across infrastructure, partnerships, supply, demand, and commercial decisions. The role requires senior strategic operations experience, strong analytical and commercial judgment, executive communication, and the ability to drive ambiguous cross-functional initiatives.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Shape and Drive Compute Strategy
- Define and operationalize long-term compute strategy across infrastructure providers, cloud partners, suppliers, and internal organizations.
- Synthesize compute requirements, supply constraints, demand forecasts, and strategic priorities for long-range planning and investment decisions.
- Develop strategic perspectives across GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, WAN, power, land, supply chain, and other infrastructure dependencies.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, strategic investments, corporate development opportunities, and emerging infrastructure business models.
- Develop frameworks to assess compute availability, supply risk, investment tradeoffs, and long-term strategic positioning.
- Identify emerging constraints and opportunities across the compute ecosystem.

### Build the Operating System for Industrial Compute
- Design and operate cross-functional planning mechanisms connecting compute supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and executive decision-making.
- Establish strategic reviews, planning cadences, initiative tracking, and executive communications.
- Develop metrics, KPIs, and analytical frameworks for compute performance, organizational health, and emerging constraints.
- Create mechanisms for tracking initiatives, dependencies, decisions, risks, and commitments.
- Establish governance and decision-making frameworks that improve clarity, accountability, and execution speed.

### Drive Cross-Functional Strategic Execution
- Lead high-priority initiatives spanning multiple organizations, functions, and infrastructure domains.
- Translate leadership priorities into structured problem statements, strategic options, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Align stakeholders with different objectives, incentives, and expertise.
- Resolve organizational bottlenecks, dependencies, and ownership gaps.
- Evaluate technical, financial, commercial, and operational tradeoffs for executive decisions.
- Own critical initiatives without clear organizational homes through completion.

### Strategic Partnerships and Commercial Strategy
- Shape and execute complex strategic compute transactions with the Partnerships organization.
- Define strategic rationale, business requirements, and success criteria for compute partnerships and investments.
- Align Finance, Partnerships, Research, Infrastructure, and Scaling stakeholders around commercial decisions.
- Develop capabilities around cloud commercial strategy, pricing optimization, capacity commitments, and vendor economics.
- Analyze commercial structures, supplier relationships, and infrastructure partnerships to improve cost, flexibility, availability, and strategic leverage.
- Advise senior leadership on compute partnerships, commercial decisions, and infrastructure investments.

### Executive and Organizational Leadership
- Operate as an extension of compute leadership on strategic and operational matters.
- Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems through decision-oriented analysis and recommendations.
- Build credibility with senior leaders and technical experts through sound judgment and analytical depth.
- Influence decisions across organizations without formal authority.
- Anticipate organizational and infrastructure risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Build durable operating mechanisms that create value beyond individual initiatives.

## Requirements
- Significant experience in strategy, strategic operations, business operations, management consulting, corporate development, infrastructure strategy, or a similarly high-impact strategic function.
- Experience in technology or infrastructure-intensive organizations preferred.
- Experience as a senior individual contributor on complex, company-level initiatives with ambiguity, executive visibility, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Strong understanding of cloud, compute infrastructure, data centers, AI infrastructure, or large-scale technology ecosystems and their commercial dynamics.
- Ability to develop long-range strategies connecting market dynamics, technical constraints, financial considerations, and organizational capabilities.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong commercial judgment and experience evaluating partnerships, vendor relationships, pricing structures, capacity commitments, investments, or strategic transactions.
- Experience building operating mechanisms, planning frameworks, metrics systems, and executive-level business reviews.
- Ability to drive initiatives across organizational boundaries with competing priorities and ambiguous ownership.
- Strong executive communication skills.

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