--- title: 'Cyber Enablement Lead, Gov at OpenAI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/cyber-enablement-lead-gov-openai-washington-3ganz5hgw482' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Cyber Enablement Lead, Gov at OpenAI - **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai) - **Location:** Washington, DC - **Compensation:** $207k–$230k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/a244270d-9308-4124-82d5-9c0b91eae1f2 ## Job description ## About the team The Adoption, Innovation, and Transformation (AIT) team within OpenAI for Government helps government organizations turn OpenAI products into durable capabilities and measurable mission impact. We work alongside government leaders and public servants to move from exploration to confident, responsible, organization-wide use of AI, including our Cyber and Daybreak capabilities. Our work combines strategic communications, hands-on enablement, adoption strategy, deployment support, and community building, tailored to government missions and operating environments. ## About the role We are seeking a Cyber Enablement Lead to help government cyber professionals turn Daybreak’s capabilities into stronger defenses and measurable mission outcomes. This role combines technical credibility, hands-on teaching, strategic communication, and cross-functional leadership. You will own Daybreak’s government product enablement strategy and personally design and deliver the training that brings it to life. Your work will span audience research, curriculum design, recorded demonstrations and courses, hands-on workshops, executive briefings, and cyber councils. You will work directly with U.S. and international government cyber leaders to translate frontier AI capabilities into practical workflows that address operational challenges. You will also partner with the cyber product team, bringing customer feedback, deployment challenges, and adversarial context into product development. Your work will help shape best practices for adopting and deploying our cyber tools, strengthen government cyber defenses, and inform the direction of these capabilities. You will engage across the government cybersecurity ecosystem, including Authorizing Officials (AOs), CISOs, cyber operators, developers, and senior executives. Practitioners need practical proficiency; executives need a strategic understanding of our cyber products, their value, and their implications for mission and risk. Success means demonstrated capability, sustained adoption, and better cyber outcomes. This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel and regular work from government customer sites are required. In this role, you will - Set the vision and own the execution of Daybreak’s government enablement strategy, from audience research and learning objectives to curriculum, delivery, and measurable mission impact. - Serve as a trusted cyber ambassador for OpenAI, leading substantive conversations about our tools and capabilities with U.S. and international government leaders, customers, and the broader cyber community. - Help government leaders understand and respond to AI’s changing cyber landscape through executive briefings, public speaking, and thought leadership grounded in operational experience. - Personally lead technical training, live demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and executive conversations that help AOs, CISOs, cyber operators, developers, and senior leaders apply Daybreak to their work. - Bring frontline experience into product development. Serve as a key point of contact for Daybreak Blue and Red, translating user feedback, deployment friction, and unmet mission needs into actionable product recommendations. - Create practical learning materials, including scripts, recorded demonstrations, interactive labs, digital courses, videos, facilitator guides, and playbooks. - Convene and lead our cyber councils, bringing leaders and practitioners into candid conversations that surface hard questions, share field lessons, and build a community of practice. - Deliver tailored engagements for specialist teams and repeatable learning programs that equip thousands of practitioners to use Daybreak effectively. - Translate frontier capabilities into practical government workflows across the cybersecurity lifecycle, connecting Daybreak’s applications and deployment requirements to challenges such as critical infrastructure security and defense of critical networks. - Develop practical guidance for human-machine teaming in cyber, including where AI adds value, where human judgment is essential, and how teams validate results and act responsibly. - Coordinate across product, security, deployment, and customer teams to address adoption barriers and keep enablement technically accurate, operationally relevant, and current as capabilities and requirements evolve. - Assess demonstrated proficiency, track sustained adoption, and use evidence of stronger cyber performance and mission outcomes to improve programs. You might thrive in this role if you - Hold an active security clearance, preferably TS/SCI - Bring deep cybersecurity expertise across threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validation, prioritization, remediation, detection, incident response, and recovery, with the judgment to connect these disciplines to government missions. - Have deep fluency in Daybreak’s capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements, and can translate that knowledge into credible advice and practical government cyber training. - Have personally built and delivered cybersecurity enablement that changed how people work, from focused engagements with specialist teams to programs reaching thousands of practitioners. - Are a compelling speaker, writer, educator, and hands-on creator. You can set the strategy, write the script, record the demonstration, build the lab, and lead the workshop, roundtable, or private executive session. - Can earn trust in executive briefings and technical deep dives, adapting your language, examples, and level of detail while giving audiences a clear reason and a practical way to act. - Know how to read a leader and a room. You combine presence and emotional intelligence with humility, listen carefully, welcome hard questions, and make people comfortable learning something new. - Understand government cyber missions, security requirements, and operational constraints, ideally across DOW, federal civilian agencies, and state and local government, and can build approaches that work within those realities. - Turn ambitious goals into disciplined execution, leading cross-functional work, incorporating feedback, and taking ownership of demonstrated proficiency, sustained product use, and stronger defenses. - Have built and led teams of cyber enablement professionals, setting a high bar for technical credibility, teaching quality, and execution while helping others grow. - Bring a practical understanding of U.S. cybersecurity laws, regulations, and policies, and can explain their implications for government adoption and deployment. - Have served in a government cyber role and bring a deep commitment to the people behind the mission, including public servants, warfighters, and the intelligence community. ## About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see [OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. 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Join us in shaping the future of technology. ## About OpenAI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. - **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO. - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment - **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models) - **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity. ## Products & Services - **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows. - **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.). - **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions. - **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system. - **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials. - **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. - **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models. ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI. - **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent. - **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference. - **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products. ## Strategic Focus - **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance). - **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses. - **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026). - **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus. - **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget. - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI. - **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications. ## Sources 1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/) 2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/) 3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search) 4. 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