Manager, Cyber - Applied AI Architect
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead a team of customer-facing architects across the full customer lifecycle, from technical discovery through implementation and adoption. You will hire and coach the team, partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering, stay hands-on designing and troubleshooting integrations, and set standards for architecture reviews, guardrails and evaluation.
Requirements
- Experience hiring and managing customer-facing technical teams
- Experience across pre-sales and post-sales delivery
- Hands-on cybersecurity expertise such as AppSec, DevSecOps, cloud security, SOC, incident response or vulnerability management
- Ability to coach architects and lead executive-level technical conversations
- Experience applying AI models, APIs or agentic patterns and guiding pilots into production
- Ability to prioritize and manage technical escalations
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach and develop a team of Cyber Applied AI Architects
- Establish team priorities and balance pre-sales with post-sales implementation
- Lead technical discovery with security executives and practitioners
- Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on solution design, demos, workshops and proofs of concept
- Guide the team in translating requirements into architectures and implementation plans
- Oversee solutions from pre-sales prototyping through production deployment
- Serve as senior technical partner for strategic customers
- Design, build and troubleshoot complex integrations
- Set standards for architectural reviews, evaluation frameworks, governance, guardrails and monitoring
- Resolve escalations and turn customer feedback into product priorities
- Measure team performance, adoption and business impact
- Build reusable reference architectures and playbooks
Benefits
- Equity
- Commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
