OpenAI

Power Land Developer, Development & Power Projects

OpenAI$110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in energy infrastructure or related project delivery roles.
  • Strong understanding of utility coordination and interconnection processes.
  • Experience managing multi-party workstreams across developers, utilities, and agencies.
  • Ability to track multiple complex sites concurrently.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day advancement of powered-land opportunities.
  • Own utility application and interconnection follow-through.
  • Scope and manage external studies and consultant workstreams.
  • Track development schedules, dependencies, and risk registers.
  • Translate technical findings into clear schedule and budget implications.
  • Partner with various leads to align project advancement.
  • Support expansion planning and long-term power-risk mitigation.
  • Define readiness criteria and prepare handoff packages.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on diverse powered-land projects.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Exposure to various energy infrastructure initiatives.
  • Potential for impactful contributions to project development.
  • Development of standardized processes and playbooks for future projects.
Full Job Description
About the Role

ThePower Land Developer; Development & Power Projects will support the advancement of powered-land opportunities across the portfolio, reporting to the Development & Power Project Lead. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. This role will own day-to-day development execution across approximately 1-3 active sites depending on complexity, including utility applications, interconnection requests, study follow-through, queue milestones, consultant workstreams, schedule and risk management, and readiness handoff for opportunities advancing to deeper diligence, commercial commitment, or execution.

The role translates study and utility findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications for portfolio decisions.

Responsibilities
  • Manage day-to-day advancement of powered-land opportunities from intake through readiness.
  • Own utility application and interconnection follow-through across active powered-land opportunities, including utility inputs, study responses, and queue milestones.
  • Scope and manage external studies and consultant workstreams needed to validate readiness.
  • Track development schedules, dependencies, risk registers, site-readiness milestones, and key budget implications.
  • Translate technical findings into clear schedule, budget, and risk implications and escalate material blockers or trade-offs to the Development & Power Project Lead.
  • Partner with land, environmental, economic development, and community affairs leads to align project advancement.
  • Support expansion planning, infrastructure sequencing, and long-term power-risk mitigation.
  • Define readiness criteria and prepare handoff packages for opportunities moving into deeper diligence or execution.
  • Help build repeatable playbooks for powered-land development across geographies.

Qualifications
  • 6+ years in energy infrastructure, energy project development, site development, data center development, or related project delivery roles.
  • Strong understanding of utility coordination, interconnection processes, and development scheduling.
  • Experience managing multi-party workstreams across developers, utilities, consultants, and agencies.
  • Ability to track multiple complex sites concurrently and translate uncertainty into clear actions.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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