Environmental Lead

About OpenAI OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure platform. Through the Industrial program, we are developing a global portfolio of next-generation data center campuses that integrate power, land, water, fiber, and community systems into resilient, long-term AI infrastructure. The Site Development & Readiness organization ensures that every location we advance is technically buildable, commercially viable, environmentally sound, and supported by the communities in which we operate. Environmental and community performance are treated as first-order constraints, not downstream compliance activities. About the Role The Environmental & Community Stewardship Lead owns how OpenAI evaluates, governs, and delivers environmental and community performance across its global data center portfolio. This role sets OpenAI’s environmental standards, oversees third-party developers and consultants, leads early-stage environmental risk screening, and ensures projects meet both regulatory requirements and OpenAI’s long-term stewardship commitments. The role plays a central part in determining which sites OpenAI advances, how they are permitted, and how they are received by host communities. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role spans the full environmental lifecycle from site selection through permitting, cons...