Security Incident Response Team Manager
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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About the Role
You will build and lead the incident response team, command consequential incidents, and lead technically demanding investigations. You will build agentic capabilities with OpenAI models, set investigation standards, drive incidents to verified closure, coordinate with stakeholders, and strengthen defenses and readiness.
Requirements
- Experience managing security responders or technical operations teams
- Strong AI fluency and experience using models or agents in investigation workflows
- Deep investigation expertise across identity, cloud, host, and infrastructure systems
- Ability to write scripts or code and prototype tools
- Experience commanding incidents involving capable adversaries
- Clear communication with engineers, executives, and legal partners
- Experience improving on-call operations, playbooks, or exercise programs
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop incident responders
- Lead incident command for complex threats
- Build and ship agentic capabilities using OpenAI models for investigation and response
- Set investigation standards across identity, endpoints, cloud, Kubernetes, and large-scale compute
- Drive incidents to verified closure and track corrective actions
- Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders and update executives
- Build sustainable on-call coverage and escalation paths
- Build readiness into new research and infrastructure capabilities
- Turn incident evidence into stronger defenses with Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence
- Prioritize improvements using incident outcomes and measure response quality
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax 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 company 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
