Tax Director - Infrastructure & Incentives

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center development or cloud infrastructure investments.
• Experience negotiating incentives across multiple U.S. states and international jurisdictions.
• Familiarity with energy markets, utility incentive programs, renewable energy investments, or transmission infrastructure.
• Experience implementing tax technology solutions supporting property tax, incentives, and indirect tax processes.
• CPA, JD, MST, or equivalent advanced tax qualification.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company or other rapidly scaling global organization.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 12+ years of experience in state and local tax, property tax, tax incentives, infrastructure tax, or economic development, including significant in-house leadership experience.
• Deep experience supporting large-scale infrastructure investments, data centers, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, or other capital-intensive industries.
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex economic development incentives with state and local governments.
• Strong understanding of property tax, sales and use tax, construction taxation, and infrastructure-related tax issues.
• Experience building scalable tax processes and governance frameworks supporting multi-billion-dollar capital investment programs.
• Strong financial modeling skills with the ability to evaluate investment returns, incentive value, and long-term financial impacts.
• Experience partnering effectively with executive leadership and influencing cross-functional strategic decisions.
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills with the ability to represent OpenAI before government officials, external advisors, and senior executives.
• Proven ability to lead highly cross-functional initiatives across Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, Engineering, Treasury, Public Policy, and Operations.
• Experience building, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams in fast-growing organizations.