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Compute Business Operations Lead – OpenAI
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About The Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute team secures and scales core resources that power research and products. We partner with engineering, finance, legal, and operations to negotiate strategic partnerships that expand compute, power, and data center infrastructure, spanning energy procurement, real estate, colocation, cloud services, and silicon vendors.
About The Role We’re hiring a Compute Business Operations Lead to drive high‑priority, cross‑functional initiatives that shape how OpenAI scales its compute infrastructure. The role blends strategic thinking and operational excellence, coordinating across technical and business teams to advance critical compute priorities with clarity and speed.
In This Role, You Will
Take end‑to‑end ownership of critical compute initiatives that span multiple teams and functions.
Shape and operationalize programs that support OpenAI’s infrastructure scale‑up, turning one‑off efforts into repeatable systems.
Collaborate with internal technical, product, finance, and operations teams and external compute partners to align priorities and deliver results.
Build clear frameworks, reporting, and communication channels that help leadership make informed decisions.
Identify gaps in how we plan and execute across the compute lifecycle, and design solutions that endure as we scale.
Serve as a trusted partner to leadership, helping scope, prioritize, and execute the most important cross‑functional compute projects.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
Have 7+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, private equity, management consulting, venture capital, or similar fields, with 2+ years spent operating inside a company.
Excel at bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems and driving them to completion in fast‑moving environments with multiple stakeholders and objectives.
Able to see around the corner for future challenges and eager to solve them with a high sense of ownership, initiative and agency.
Proficiency building systems and proficiency that scale long‑term.
Communicate clearly with executives, engineers, and operators alike, adapting your approach to the audience.
Are highly analytical and comfortable using data to inform decisions.
Move fluidly between strategy and detail, balancing long‑term vision with day‑to‑day execution.
Build trust quickly, collaborate well across functions, and bring clarity to fast‑moving environments.
Are energized by OpenAI’s mission and the challenge of scaling world‑class compute infrastructure.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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Compute Business Operations Lead
role at
OpenAI .
About The Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute team secures and scales core resources that power research and products. We partner with engineering, finance, legal, and operations to negotiate strategic partnerships that expand compute, power, and data center infrastructure, spanning energy procurement, real estate, colocation, cloud services, and silicon vendors.
About The Role We’re hiring a Compute Business Operations Lead to drive high‑priority, cross‑functional initiatives that shape how OpenAI scales its compute infrastructure. The role blends strategic thinking and operational excellence, coordinating across technical and business teams to advance critical compute priorities with clarity and speed.
In This Role, You Will
Take end‑to‑end ownership of critical compute initiatives that span multiple teams and functions.
Shape and operationalize programs that support OpenAI’s infrastructure scale‑up, turning one‑off efforts into repeatable systems.
Collaborate with internal technical, product, finance, and operations teams and external compute partners to align priorities and deliver results.
Build clear frameworks, reporting, and communication channels that help leadership make informed decisions.
Identify gaps in how we plan and execute across the compute lifecycle, and design solutions that endure as we scale.
Serve as a trusted partner to leadership, helping scope, prioritize, and execute the most important cross‑functional compute projects.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
Have 7+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, private equity, management consulting, venture capital, or similar fields, with 2+ years spent operating inside a company.
Excel at bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems and driving them to completion in fast‑moving environments with multiple stakeholders and objectives.
Able to see around the corner for future challenges and eager to solve them with a high sense of ownership, initiative and agency.
Proficiency building systems and proficiency that scale long‑term.
Communicate clearly with executives, engineers, and operators alike, adapting your approach to the audience.
Are highly analytical and comfortable using data to inform decisions.
Move fluidly between strategy and detail, balancing long‑term vision with day‑to‑day execution.
Build trust quickly, collaborate well across functions, and bring clarity to fast‑moving environments.
Are energized by OpenAI’s mission and the challenge of scaling world‑class compute infrastructure.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s
Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
#J-18808-Ljbffr