Chief Operating Officer

Company Overview

Google and Blackstone have partnered to launch a first-of-its-kind AI cloud platform (“TPU Co”), purpose-built around Google’s proprietary Tensor Processing Units (“TPUs”) to deliver the most efficient, reliable, and performant compute infrastructure available. This platform represents one of the first scaled external TPU commercialization efforts for Google’s prized TPU assets, which it has spent over a decade developing. Google’s TPUs have trained and deployed at scale many of the world’s leading frontier AI models including leading models from Google itself and Anthropic. Leading AI technology companies including Meta and Anthropic have continued to signal strong demand for TPU compute, including many billions of dollars of publicly announced commitments.

TPU Co will deploy and operate AI computing clusters and related services for end customers, including hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and other leading enterprises and AI technology companies. The JV will develop deep in-house expertise across sourcing and development of data center and power capacity; design, engineering, and deployment of TPU clusters as well as the software required to operate and monitor these clusters; and customer support and success.

TPU Co will be developed in close partnership with Google, providing differentiated access to TPU supply, technical expertise, and infrastructure support. Blackstone will deploy billions of dollars of equity capital, providing unprecedented access to programmatic capital at scale. Together, these relationships position TPU Co to scale capacity rapidly and be a true first mover in defining the next gold standard for AI infrastructure. TPU Co will work hand-in-hand with both Google and its end customers, many of whom will be the leading AI and technology companies in the world, to develop custom, world-class infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI innovation.

Executive Team

TPU Co will be led by CEO Ben Treynor Sloss, who spent over two decades at Google in executive technical and infrastructure leadership roles. Ben founded the Site Reliability Engineering function, now the industry standard for operating large-scale infrastructure systems, and most recently worked directly with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to drive the commercialization of TPUs.

Ben brings deep domain expertise in AI infrastructure, along with longstanding relationships and credibility across Google’s senior leadership and customer ecosystem. He has been involved in the formation of TPU Co since inception, playing a critical role in shaping the partnership.

The Role

As Chief Operating Officer, you will be responsible for standing up the entire corporate and business infrastructure of the company, enabling the organization to scale rapidly from Day 1 while maintaining operational excellence, cost discipline, and institutional quality. Your key areas of ownership:

• Business infrastructure standup: stand up all G&A functions (HR, Finance, IT, Facilities, Procurement) from scratch, deploying a phased approach that begins with third-party subcontractors (PEO for HR, MSP for IT, outsourced partners for Finance & Operations) and migrates to an agentic AI-first corporate architecture over time
• Partner selection & onboarding: select, onboard, and manage the full ecosystem of third-party vendors and subcontractors to power the company
• Internal operations & partners: own the IT stack and operational environment for employees to work within (productivity tools, collaboration platforms, IT infrastructure, facilities, etc.)
• Organizational scaling: build the talent acquisition engine, design organizational architecture, define role structures, and stand up onboarding and enablement systems to ensure the company can scale efficiently without losing speed

Desired Experiences & Skills

• Standing up G&A functions (HR, Finance, IT, Facilities, etc.), leveraging third-party vendors
• Vendor selection, onboarding & management
• Building & hiring key roles for core corporate functions including Finance, HR, IT, Facilities
• Preparing public-ready corporate structures, support functions, and controls
• Building core business processes and controls
• Experience with agentic back-office transformation and transactional processing

Ideal Candidate

• COO who took a company from start-up to IPO, has lived the full lifecycle of building & scaling corporate infrastructure
• Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Business Officer in a scaled organization, has owned the full breadth of G&A (HR, IT, Finance, Facilities, Procurement) and operated them at scale with lean teams and high efficiency
• Chief Transformation Officer with extensive carve-out or spin-off experience, has stood up standalone corporate infrastructure for a newly independent entity
• Consultant or operator with a background in agentic back-office building & transformation, has been at the forefront of automation in corporate functions