Recruiter, Data Center Infrastructure
About The Position
OpenAI is seeking a Recruiter to join its Data Center Infrastructure recruiting team. The role owns searches from intake through offer and start, partnering with hiring managers, recruiters, and sourcers across sites and regions. The portfolio includes specialized technical searches and recurring site-based hiring across the data center lifecycle, including work related to land and power, electrical and cooling systems, construction, commissioning, and site operations. The Recruiter builds relationships with hiring managers, aligns on role outcomes and candidate profiles, develops sourcing strategies, manages multiple searches as schedules shift, monitors pipeline data and candidate feedback, and keeps leaders informed about hiring progress and decisions. The role also owns candidate relationships from first outreach through start, sets expectations about the work and any site, travel, or relocation requirements, and leads closing conversations and offer coordination.
Requirements
- Full-cycle recruiting experience for technical or operational teams.
- A track record of supporting multiple hiring managers and balancing specialist searches with recurring hiring across sites.
- Ability to build trust with hiring managers who work differently, challenge assumptions with market evidence, and bring stakeholders to a decision when priorities compete.
- Experience building pipelines across multiple geographies.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly enough to recognize relevant experience beyond job titles.
- Experience recruiting for data centers or adjacent environments such as energy, construction, advanced manufacturing, or field operations.
Nice To Haves
- Data center recruiting experience.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with hiring managers before searches open to understand site milestones and anticipate hiring needs.
- Lead search intake, clarify what each hire needs to deliver, and calibrate candidate profiles and interview criteria with hiring teams.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies with sourcers and through direct outreach.
- Map local contractors and project owners for site-based roles and search across regions for specialized talent.
- Manage multiple searches across sites and reset priorities with hiring managers as build schedules shift.
- Coordinate interviewer coverage and keep candidates informed.
- Use pipeline data and candidate feedback to identify bottlenecks, test sourcing assumptions, and keep interviews and debriefs moving.
- Keep leaders informed about which hires and start dates are on track and where decisions are needed.
- Own candidate relationships from first outreach through start and set clear expectations about the work and any site, travel, or relocation requirements.
- Lead closing conversations, involve appropriate leaders to answer candidate questions, and coordinate offer approvals and start dates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
