Technical Program Manager, Partnership Site Deployment - Stargate

About the Team:

OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Stargate team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI.

About the Role:

OpenAI is seeking someone who is excited by massive global challenges spanning thousands of stakeholders; someone motivated by solving complex, interconnected problems. Specifically, the Infrastructure Strategy & Delivery team supporting Stargate is seeking an experienced and ambitious leader to join our team as a Site Delivery TPM.

Delivering a data center is not easy. It requires a cross-functional understanding of commercial dependencies, build timelines, equipment material readiness, design specifics, commissioning timelines, and much more. Beyond the specifics, it requires the right mindset: to think around corners and de-risk problems before they happen.

This role will focus on project delivery management, ensuring our data center/supercomputer projects are set up for success and delivered on-time and that strategic partners, including Oracle, meet contractual milestones for compute delivery. By establishing relationships, establishing critical timeline and commercial SLAs, and driving supplier performance across the data center industrial base, this role will sit at a critical point in OpenAI’s infrastructure, and organizational, strategy. Infrastructure is destiny, and you get to sit in the driver’s seat!

In this role you will:

• Drive partner performance—particularly Oracle—to meet critical commercial SLAs, construction schedules, and compute-delivery commitments

• Own the partner interface for contract adherence, risk escalation, and executive reporting.

• De-risk the delivery and deployment of the largest supercomputers ever built

• Manage executive internal and external stakeholders

• Provide preconstruction support during project approval: establishing benchmarks and structures based industry best practices

• Oversee internal and external project management to ensure successful program delivery

• Manage project milestones, executive comms, budgets, coordination, design, and documentation controls

• Develop and manage biweekly forecasts and executive readouts

• Ensure major project vendors are coordinated, including architects, engineers, suppliers, and construction teams

• Manage and update internal- and build- risk registers, evaluating contingencies effectively; coordinate with partner teams for resolution

• Lead the project (material, operational, and financial) closeout process

• Support programmatic initiatives associated with site readiness such as: delivery and turnover tracking & handover readiness

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, or equivalent field.

• Experience managing complicated and complex technical projects

• Experience managing large organizations with senior stakeholders

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in construction and project planning within large-scale, multi-project construction programs.

• Proven experience leading project control teams for general contractors.

• Strong collaboration skills and a proactive problem-solving approach.

• Proficiency and fluency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and Google Suite.

• Familiarity with cost control tools such as eBuilder, Procore, or similar platforms.

• Ability to effectively communicate financial and scheduling details from multiple construction sites to project stakeholders.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills in a highly collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills:

• 10+ years of experience managing project delivery and controls across large data center projects

• Experience managing projects and controls across multiple general contractors and sites

• Expertise in communicating project risks to internal and external executive leadership

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$285K – $355K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.