About this role
About the Team
Industrial Compute is building the infrastructure ecosystem that enables OpenAI to train and deploy increasingly capable AI systems at unprecedented scale. The organization operates across compute supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and the physical and commercial systems required to make large-scale compute available.
Industrial Compute Strategy & Operations serves as the connective operating layer across this ecosystem. The team works directly with senior leadership across Scaling, Finance, Partnerships, Research, and Infrastructure to translate ambiguous, high-impact challenges into clear strategies, scalable operating mechanisms, and decisive execution.
This team is responsible for ensuring that OpenAI’s compute strategy evolves into durable competitive advantage by identifying systemic constraints, aligning stakeholders around critical decisions, and driving the operating mechanisms required to execute at scale.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Strategic Operations leader to help shape and operationalize OpenAI’s compute strategy across supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and commercial strategy.
This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the intersection of strategy, operations, infrastructure, and executive decision-making. You will work closely with compute leadership to identify the most consequential problems facing the organization, develop structured approaches to solving them, align stakeholders across the company, and drive initiatives from ambiguous concepts through execution.
The role will span both strategic and operational work. You may develop long-range compute strategies and investment frameworks, evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, shape major commercial transactions, establish organizational planning mechanisms, or take ownership of a cross-functional initiative that does not have a clear organizational home.
Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, analytical rigor, executive communication, and the ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous environments. You will be expected to independently identify what matters most, build alignment across organizations, and create the operating systems that allow Industrial Compute to move faster and make better decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
Shape and Drive Compute Strategy
- Partner with compute leadership to define and operationalize OpenAI’s long-term compute strategy across infrastructure providers, cloud partners, suppliers, and internal organizations.
- Synthesize compute requirements, supply constraints, demand forecasts, and strategic priorities to inform long-range planning and investment decisions.
- Develop strategic perspectives across GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, WAN, power, land, supply chain, and other critical infrastructure dependencies.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, strategic investments, corporate development opportunities, and emerging infrastruc