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. The Infrastructure Strategy & Delivery team supporting Stargate is hiring a Technical Program Manager to coordinate datacenter deployments in partnership with external development and operations teams. 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 site deployment management, ensuring our data center/supercomputer projects are set up for success and delivered on-time and that our strategic partners meet contractual milestones for AI compute delivery. By establishing relationships, establishing critical timelines 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! *must be open to at least 3-5 days per week in one of the following: - Santa Teresa, New Mexico - Burlington, TX - Saline, Michigan Key Responsibilities Drive partner performance to meet critical commercial SLAs, construction schedules, and compute-deployment commitments. Serve as the primary interface with external partners for contract alignment, risk escalation, and high-level reporting. De-risk datacenter deployments by identifying critical path items, surfacing blockers early, and coordinating mitigations. Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and timely decision-making. Provide pre-construction support during project approval, establishing benchmarks and structures based on industry best practices. Support rack manufacturing ramps by coordinating with partners to track production, shipping, and site-readiness milestones, ensuring racks arrive on schedule and meet quality standards. Lead structured program management from pre-construction through commissioning, including forecasting, budget tracking, documentation control, and regular executive updates. Oversee project milestones and ensure alignment across vendors—including architects, engineers, suppliers, and construction teams—while maintaining and updating risk registers to evaluate contingencies and drive resolution. Support broader site-readiness initiatives such as delivery tracking, turnover planning, and handover readiness. Qualifications 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 7 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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do n