Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Lead

San Francisco, United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

- Build integrated execution plans spanning construction, power energization, rack deployment, networking, cluster readiness, and workload onboarding.
- Drive external providers, EPCs, OEMs, utilities, and strategic partners toward aggressive timelines.
- Build operating cadences, dashboards, forecasts, and executive reporting for TaaS programs.
- Develop repeatable deployment models for future industrial compute expansion.

About the Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute team is responsible for building and scaling large-scale compute capacity across first-party data centers, strategic partners, and industrial infrastructure environments.
We focus on converting power, land, hardware, and operational execution into reliable compute capacity that can support frontier AI training and inference workloads.
In this role, you will own execution across complex compute programs where raw infrastructure capacity must be transformed into operational GPU throughput.
Success requires strong systems thinking, elite program leadership, and the ability to drive accountability across internal teams and strategic partners.
Experience with GPU clusters, AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, or industrial technology programs. - Background in program management, operations leadership, capacity delivery, or strategic infrastructure execution. - Familiarity with utilities, construction, commissioning, networking, hardware deployment, or cluster bring-up. -
Experience managing multi-billion-dollar infrastructure or capacity programs. - Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence

You will coordinate across data center delivery, power, networking, hardware deployment, workload enablement, finance, and external partners to ensure capacity becomes productive tokens as quickly and efficiently as possible.
This role is ideal for someone who can bridge physical infrastructure delivery with compute utilization outcomes.
In this role, you will - Lead Tokens-as-a-Service programs across industrial compute environments, including first-party and partner-owned capacity.
- Convert delivered power, space, and hardware capacity into production-ready token throughput.
- Partner with infrastructure engineering, hardware, networking, finance, supply chain, and operations teams.
- Identify bottlenecks between physical delivery and usable compute output, then lead resolution.
You might thrive in this role if you - Have led hyperscale infrastructure, data center, manufacturing, or industrial deployment programs. - Understand how power + hardware + networking + software combine into usable compute. - Can operate equally well with engineers, operators, executives, and external partners. - Are highly structured in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. - Know how to escalate intelligently and maintain momentum under pressure. - Can translate technical execution into business