Strategic Delivery Lead, Cyber
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Projects
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead delivery of high-impact AI deployments for U.S. national security and cyber customers on the OpenAI Platform API and ChatGPT Enterprise. You will partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Forward Deployed Engineers and Solutions Architects, define milestones, manage risks, and communicate progress from technical teams to the C-suite. You are accountable for contractual milestones and acceptance criteria.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance, preferably with Counterintelligence or Full Scope Polygraph
- 10+ years in cybersecurity, national security consulting, delivery leadership or senior program management
- Willing to travel up to 50% and work on-site with customers
- Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives with national security agencies
- Experience leading complex national security or cyber programs
- Track record influencing executive-level customer decisions
- Experience managing large-scale AI/ML or enterprise API-based deployments
Responsibilities
- Forge and manage strategic partnerships with national security and cyber mission users
- Lead delivery of engagements tied to contractual milestones
- Translate between technical teams and business stakeholders
- Identify key AI use cases such as cyber defense, threat intelligence, security operations, incident response and vulnerability management and turn them into delivery plans
- Partner with FDEs, SAs and Research to scope complex problems into projects
- Establish best practices for milestone tracking and delivery operations
- Build consensus across teams with competing priorities
- Lead regular progress reviews with stakeholders
- Identify delivery risks early and mitigate blockers
- Shape how OpenAI engages with national security and cyber customers
Benefits
- 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
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
