CPU/Storage/PoP-WAN Program Manager

About the Team

OpenAI’s Infrastructure organization builds the systems that power frontier AI workloads at global scale. As compute demand accelerates, our ability to rapidly convert infrastructure investments into usable production capacity has become mission critical.

The CPU / Storage / PoP / WAN team is responsible for the end-to-end infrastructure layers required to bring compute online: server and cluster activation, storage platforms, Points of Presence (PoPs), backbone connectivity, and global network expansion. We operate across first-party facilities, colocation environments, and strategic cloud partners to ensure OpenAI can scale reliably and quickly.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly technical Program Manager to lead execution across CPU, Storage, PoP, and WAN infrastructure programs that directly unlock OpenAI’s next generation compute capacity.

In this role, you will own complex cross-functional programs spanning compute cluster activation, storage deployment, PoP bring-up, and backbone expansion. You will coordinate hardware readiness, site readiness, network pathing, storage availability, vendor execution, and engineering dependencies required to turn contracted infrastructure into live training and inference capacity.

This role requires strong technical fluency across hardware systems, network infrastructure, storage architecture, and deployment execution. You should be comfortable operating from rack-level implementation details through executive-level capacity planning discussions.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with travel as needed.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end execution of CPU / GPU cluster activation programs across OpenAI’s global infrastructure footprint

- Drive readiness to convert contracted compute capacity into schedulable production clusters

- Own deployment programs for new PoPs, backbone nodes, WAN expansion, and interconnection initiatives

- Build integrated schedules spanning procurement, log...