Land and Data Center Development

The role

This professional will secure land and data-center capacity for compute infrastructure. The role involves land acquisition, development, data-center leasing, and real estate acquisitions.

What you will do

• Lead sourcing, evaluation, and commercial execution of land acquisition opportunities for data-center development.
• Support data-center leasing and real estate acquisitions.
• Build relationships with landowners, brokers, developers, and data-center counterparties.
• Structure and negotiate land acquisition, site-control, and data-center lease agreements.
• Coordinate diligence with legal, finance, engineering, and development partners.
• Evaluate deal economics and present recommendations on costs, terms, and tradeoffs.
• Manage the transaction pipeline and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Drive transactions through agreement execution and coordinate handoffs to development and delivery teams.

Required qualifications

• Strong commercial real estate development experience in land acquisition, site control, and development feasibility.
• Record of sourcing, structuring, and negotiating complex real estate agreements.
• Ability to work across land transactions and data-center leasing.
• Sound commercial judgment to assess deal economics and identify risks.
• Experience working across legal, finance, engineering, and operations teams.
• Clear communication and ownership of complex negotiations, competing priorities, and uncertain timelines.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Compute organization builds the infrastructure that powers frontier AI training and inference.