Strategic Deals

ABOUT THE TEAM The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure foundation that powers OpenAI’s research and products. The team works across compute strategy, infrastructure planning, hardware partnerships, and capacity management to ensure OpenAI can meet rapidly growing training and inference demands with resilient, efficient, and future-looking infrastructure systems. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Strategic Deals Leader, you will help shape OpenAI's long-term approach to AI infrastructure, compute capacity, and strategic ecosystem partnerships. Operating at the intersection of infrastructure strategy, technology evaluation, commercial partnerships, and market development, you will identify and execute opportunities that expand OpenAI's access to the compute, infrastructure, and technologies required to support frontier AI systems. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and executive leadership teams to evaluate emerging technologies, develop ecosystem strategies, assess build-versus-buy decisions, and cultivate strategic relationships across hardware vendors, cloud providers, data center operators, and the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. We’re looking for people who combine deep understanding of AI infrastructure and emerging technology ecosystems with strong strategic judgment, technical curiosity, and the ability...