Economic Development Lead

Job details

Work model

Hybrid

Salary

$225K - $285K

Location

US - Remote

Hiring context

How this role compares at OpenAI

OpenAI has 797 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 14 job families, and 293 of them are in data & analytics. 664 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 83%.

This role's posted range of $225K - $285K sits above 24% of the 651 other OpenAI roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

About the Team OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options. About the Role The Economic Development Lead works upstream across the national pipeline, beginning engagement before a project is public and helping shape the incentive, relationship, community-benefit, and approval strategy for sites under evaluation. This role enters early during site evaluation and deal formation; once a project moves toward announcement, the dedicated Community Engagement Lead becomes the local owner while the Economic Development Lead continues to support agreement-linked commitments and incentive execution. Key Responsibilities - Own incentive strategy and negotiations. - Build local and state economic-development relationships. - Develop community-benefit commitments tied to project agreements. - Coordinate with Site Selection, Land, Power, Legal, Finance, and Community Engagement. - Identify political, commercial, and approval risks early. - Transition local relationships and commitments to the assigned Community Engagement Lead as a project moves toward announcement. Qualifications - 6+ years in economic development, public-private partnerships, infrastructure development, government affairs, or a related field. - Experience structuring and negotiating incentive packages for large infrastructure, energy, technology, or real estate projects. - Strong relationships and judgment across local, state, and regional economic-development stakeholders. - Ability to connect incentives, community benefits, legal commitments, project economics, and approval risk. - Excellent cross-functional coordination, negotiation, and executive-communication 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.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf 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.

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