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OpenAI's Stargate team is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. This role owns the strategy for expanding AI infrastructure into new geographies globally, working at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations.
As the New Geography and International Growth Lead, you will develop market-entry frameworks for international infrastructure expansion, assessing power availability, land readiness, regulatory environment, commercial fit, and execution risk. You'll evaluate priority regions and countries against OpenAI's long-term compute, energy, sustainability, policy, and operational objectives.
Key responsibilities include coordinating cross-functional geographic diligence with energy, policy, commercial, legal, finance, procurement, engineering, and site-readiness teams. You'll lead early stakeholder mapping and engagement with utilities, regulators, government entities, developers, and capital partners. You'll translate regional findings into executive-ready recommendations, including go/no-go decisions, gating risks, required partnerships, and sequencing options.
You'll identify market, regulatory, land-control, permitting, community, and operating dependencies that could affect speed, scale, cost, or strategic fit. You'll partner with energy regulatory and policy teams to align geography strategy with OpenAI's broader external engagement and infrastructure narrative. You'll build repeatable playbooks, decision criteria, and tracking mechanisms for evaluating and activating new geographies.
This is an individual contributor lead role without direct reports initially, focused on translating ambiguous market-entry questions into clear recommendations and identifying conditions required for OpenAI to advance in new regions.
