Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Lead

About the Team

OpenAIs 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.

This team operates at the intersection of infrastructure delivery hardware systems utilities supply chain and capacity strategyensuring OpenAI can scale compute faster than traditional models allow.

About the Role

We are seeking a Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Lead to drive the end-to-end conversion of industrial-scale infrastructure investments into usable token capacity for OpenAI workloads.

In this role you will own execution across complex compute programs where raw infrastructure capacity must be transformed into operational GPU throughput. 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. Success requires strong systems thinking elite program leadership and the ability to drive accountability across internal teams and strategic partners.

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.

• Build integrated execution plans spanning construction power energization rack deployment networking cluster readiness and workload onboarding.

• Partner with infrastructure engineering hardware networking finance supply chain and operations teams.

• Drive external providers EPCs OEMs utilities and strategic partners toward aggressive timelines.

• Identify bottlenecks between physical delivery and usable compute output then lead resolution.

• Build operating cadences dashboards forecasts and executive reporting for TaaS programs.

• Develop repeatable deployment models for future industrial compute expansion.

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 outcomes.

Preferred Skills

• 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 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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