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.