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Business Development Lead, Compute Strategy
About the Team
OpenAI’s Compute Strategy team is responsible for securing and scaling the core resources that power our 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 and strategic supply chain, and infrastructure financing—ensuring OpenAI can grow with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
About the Role
We are hiring several Business Development Lead, Compute Strategy positions focused on compute infrastructure. Each hire will bring deep expertise in one or more focus areas while collaborating across the broader infrastructure stack. In this role, you will source opportunities, structure partnerships, and negotiate high-value agreements across OpenAI’s infrastructure ecosystem. You will work directly with external partners and suppliers while collaborating internally with engineering, legal, finance, and operations to ensure we have the resources needed to support state-of-the-art AI systems. This role requires technical fluency, commercial judgment, and disciplined execution. Your work will directly shape how quickly, reliably, and efficiently OpenAI can bring new compute capacity online.
Each hire will focus on building partnerships and executing deals in one or more of the following areas:
Energy and Power: securing scalable and sustainable energy supply.
Land and Real Estate: identifying and securing strategic sites.
Colocation: evaluating and contracting for third-party data center capacity.
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs): structuring partnerships with hyperscalers and specialized AI cloud providers.
Silicon: building semiconductor partnerships to secure advanced silicon and resilient long-term supply.
Fiber & Equipment: securing fiber & critical data center equipment from strategic suppliers.
Capital Markets: partnering with Finance, Treasury, and capital providers to develop financing solutions for large-scale compute infrastructure investments.
Key Responsibilities
Own partnership opportunities end-to-end—from concept formation and sourcing through evaluation, diligence, internal approval, negotiation, close, and post-close execution—across one or more of the focus areas above.
Lead negotiations for complex commercial agreements, balancing cost, speed, and long-term scalability.
Build and manage relationships with senior leaders across utilities, real estate developers, colocation and cloud providers, semiconductor and equipment suppliers, financial institutions, and other capital providers.
Develop market intelligence to inform OpenAI’s infrastructure roadmap and partnership strategy.
Coordinate across engineering, legal, finance, Treasury, and operations to structure agreements that align with technical and business objectives.
Represent OpenAI in external forums, conferences, and industry working groups to strengthen our ecosystem presence.
Operationalize and establish governance for signed agreements; track delivery, risks, economics, and business impact against commercial and technical objectives.
Qualifications
Have 8+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, private equity, corporate development, project development, or infrastructure finance, with relevant experience in at least one focus area above.
Have a demonstrated track record of closing complex, high-value commercial agreements.
Bring deep expertise in at least one of the focus areas above, with the ability to translate technical requirements and constraints into commercial structures and contract terms.
Possess exceptional negotiation and relationship management skills with the ability to engage C-level stakeholders.
Have strong analytical skills to assess market opportunities, model deal structures, and evaluate long-term ROI.
Are comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
Hold a JD, MBA, or equivalent experience is preferred but not required.
About OpenAI
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.
To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems.
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What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
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Our ideal candidate will have a passion for agricultural innovation and a proven track record in sales, preferably in the Agtech or drone industries. Familiarity with the US and Canadian agricultural landscape are essential, while knowledge of drone technology or experience in precision agriculture is a plus. If you are a motivated self-starter with the ability to build strong client relationships and drive business growth, this is your chance to join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of agricultural technology.
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