# Land and Data Center Development

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212K - $295K
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

OpenAI's Compute organization builds the infrastructure that powers frontier AI training and inference.

We're looking for a commercial real estate (CRE) development professional to help secure land and data-center capacity for OpenAI's compute infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Lead sourcing, evaluation, and commercial execution of land acquisition opportunities for data-center development.

- Support data-center leasing and real estate acquisitions, working across land and data-center transactions as priorities require.

- Build relationships with landowners, brokers, developers, and data-center counterparties to source opportunities.

- Structure and negotiate land acquisition, site-control, and data-center lease agreements with legal and business partners.

- Coordinate diligence with legal, finance, engineering, and development partners, translating site constraints and readiness risks into commercial decisions.

- Evaluate deal economics and present clear recommendations on costs, terms, tradeoffs, and next steps.

- Manage the transaction pipeline, keep stakeholders aligned, and resolve issues that affect decisions and execution.

- Drive transactions through agreement execution and coordinate clear handoffs to the teams responsible for development and delivery.

Qualifications:

- Strong commercial real estate development experience, with depth in land acquisition, site control, and development feasibility.

- A record of sourcing, structuring, and negotiating complex real estate agreements.

- Ability to work across land transactions and data-center leasing, with sound judgment about their different commercial and development requirements.

- Sound commercial judgment and the ability to assess deal economics, identify risks, and make practical recommendations.

- Experience working across legal, finance, engineering, and operations teams to move transactions forward.

- Clear communication and strong ownership of complex negotiations, competing priorities, and uncertain timelines.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial real estate development
- land acquisition
- site control
- data-center leasing
- real estate acquisitions

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