CommercialCompute&EcosystemStrategy

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 the Head of Compute Strategy & Ecosystem Management, you will lead long-term compute acquisition strategy and ecosystem management across OpenAI’s rapidly scaling infrastructure footprint. You will drive strategic planning for compute acquisition, capacity forecasting, and infrastructure deployment, balancing evolving workload requirements across training, inference, and research against supply constraints, cost efficiency, and speed to capacity. You will also manage the broader ecosystem of data center partners, hardware vendors, cloud providers, and infrastructure suppliers, ensuring OpenAI maintains strong strategic relationships and resilient infrastructure capabilities as we scale. We’re looking for people who combine deep infrastructure and business strategy expertise with strong operational judgment, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership. This role is highly cross-functional and requires close partnership with engineering, finance, operations, and executive leadership teams. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Develop and execute OpenAI’s long-term compute acquisition and infrastructure capacity strategy across training, inference, and research workloads. - Lead strategic ecosystem management across data center partners, hardware vendors, cloud providers, and infrastructure suppliers. - Drive infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, and deployment strategy to ensure scalable