テクニカル・ビジネス・デベロップメント・マネージャー – インフラストラクチャ
事業開発正社員—サンフランシスコハイブリッド
エネルギー、データセンター、シリコンなどのインフラ分野における戦略的パートナーシップの開拓および交渉を担当します。複雑な商用契約を主導し、エンジニアリング、法務、財務チームと連携して業務を進めます。週3日のオフィス出社が必須であり、サンフランシスコ勤務に向けた転居支援が提供されます。技術的な理解と商用的な判断力を活かし、インフラ戦略を策定する役割です。
エネルギー、データセンター、シリコンなどのインフラ分野における戦略的パートナーシップの開拓および交渉を担当します。複雑な商用契約を主導し、エンジニアリング、法務、財務チームと連携して業務を進めます。週3日のオフィス出社が必須であり、サンフランシスコ勤務に向けた転居支援が提供されます。技術的な理解と商用的な判断力を活かし、インフラ戦略を策定する役割です。
The Industrial Compute team is responsible for securing and scaling the core resources that power OpenAI’s research and products. We partner across engineering, finance, legal, and operations to identify, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships that expand OpenAI’s capacity for compute, power, and data center infrastructure. Our mandate spans energy procurement, real estate development, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon vendors, and data center equipment—ensuring OpenAI can grow with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
As a Technical Business Development Manager focused on Infrastructure, you will source, structure, and negotiate high-value agreements across the critical pillars of OpenAI’s infrastructure stack. You will work directly with external partners and suppliers while collaborating internally with engineering, legal, finance, and operations to secure the resources needed to support state-of-the-art AI systems.
We’re looking for people who combine technical understanding, commercial acumen, and strategic execution. This role may focus on one or more of the following areas: energy and power, land and real estate, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon, and data center equipment.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
Identify, evaluate, and execute strategic partnerships across energy, land, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon, and data center equipment.
Lead negotiations for complex commercial agreements, balancing cost, speed, resilience, and long-term scalability.
Build and manage relationships with executives at utilities, real estate developers, colocation providers, cloud service providers, semiconductor companies, and equipment vendors.
Develop market intelligence to inform OpenAI’s infrastructure roadmap and partnership strategy.
Partner closely with engineering, finance, legal, and operations to structure and execute agreements that support OpenAI’s growth.
Bring strong commercial judgment and experience structuring and negotiating complex, high-value agreements.
Can develop a technical understanding of infrastructure markets and translate it into effective partnership strategies.
Build trusted relationships with senior external partners and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
Operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and balance immediate execution with long-term strategic goals.
Communicate complex technical and commercial considerations clearly to a range of stakeholders.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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