--- title: 'Strategic Delivery Lead, Cyber at OpenAI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-delivery-lead-cyber-openai-washington-tkqcqgkbeydt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Strategic Delivery Lead, Cyber at OpenAI - **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai) - **Location:** Washington, DC - **Compensation:** $266k–$370k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/125db0ea-d5e1-4c49-bc1a-e6ffc8ea71ff ## Job description ## About the team The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure, compliant AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov) and mission-aligned deployments that meet government technical requirements with strong reliability and safety. As part of the OpenAI for Government team you will work across the U.S. national security and cyber ecosystem, helping to accelerate adoption through hands-on support, tailored training, and early insights—so civil servants can spend less time on red tape and more on meaningful work. You will partner with government organizations to identify high-impact opportunities, translate complex cyber mission challenges into AI-enabled solutions, and drive secure deployments that help cyber professionals move faster and operate more effectively. If you're passionate about responsibly deploying frontier AI to uplift public institutions, strengthen cyber resilience, and transform how the government serves the American people, we want you on our team. ## About the Role The Strategic Delivery Lead (Cyber) will identify and deliver on some of OpenAI’s most complex and high-impact deployments for the U.S. national security and cyber enterprise. In this role, you will work closely with our national security partners and cyber mission owners to make their hardest problems solvable on the OpenAI Platform API and ChatGPT Enterprise. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: You’ll partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Architects, security teams, and external stakeholders to align on scope, unblock delivery, and communicate progress at every level, from technical teams to C-suite. You will own and drive execution of technical delivery workstreams led by internal teams (Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects), ensuring clear problem-framing, crisp milestone definitions, proactive risk identification, rapid issue resolution, and effective translation between business objectives and cyber mission requirements and technical solutions, while consistently communicating clear progress and demonstrating tangible value to national security customers. Accountability for contractual milestones and acceptance criteria sits with you. This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep program management expertise, executive presence, experience operating in cyber or national security environments, and a passion for making novel technology deliver real-world value. In this role, you will: - Forge and manage strategic partnerships with key national security and cyber mission users to identify and deliver on the most impactful AI and AGI use cases. - Serve as the accountable lead for delivering high-impact national security and cyber-focused engagements tied to defined contractual milestones. - Act as a key translator between technical teams and business stakeholders, clearly articulating technical progress, risks, requirements, and dependencies in language accessible to both senior executives and technical practitioners. - Work with government, defense, industry partners, and academia to identify key concepts for national security AI use including cyber defense, threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management workflows and then translate them into actionable delivery plans that align technical feasibility with national security impact. - Partner deeply with technical teams (FDEs, SAs, Research) to frame complex business and technical problems into actionable, scoped projects, serving as a strategic sounding board and thought leader to guide technical direction, anticipate blockers, and align teams proactively. - Establish best practices around milestone tracking, internal coordination, and delivery operations at scale. - Build internal consensus across teams with competing priorities, secure commitments from stakeholders you do not manage, and drive complex projects to completion with limited dedicated resources - Lead regular progress reviews with national security and cyber stakeholders, ensuring transparency and confidence in delivery. - Identify delivery risks early and work cross-functionally to mitigate blockers and maintain program velocity. - Navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements with composure, helping internal and external teams stay aligned. - Help shape the future of how OpenAI engages with national security and cyber customers through milestone-based delivery programs. You’ll thrive in this role if you: - Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance, with a strong preference for an active Counterintelligence or Full Scope Polygraph - Have 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, national security consulting, delivery leadership, or senior program management roles, driving complex technical initiatives across cross-functional teams to deliver results for national security missions. - Are willing to travel up to 50% and work on-site with national security and cyber customers to build strong relationships and deeply understand their needs. - Have experience leading organizational transformation initiatives (AI, digital, or business transformation) directly with national security departments or agencies. - Have led complex national security or cyber-focused programs in enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, consulting, cybersecurity, or transformation environments. - Have a proven track record influencing and shaping customer decision-making at executive/board level and the ability to drive clarity, accountability, and alignment at senior levels. - Demonstrated experience delivering outcomes in lean, fast-moving environments by influencing without authority, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and mobilizing cross-functional teams around the highest-priority work. - Strong track record of execution in delivering ambitious goals on complex cross-functional projects. - Prior experience managing large scale AI/ML or enterprise API-based deployments. - Are passionate about how AI and AGI can enhance the national security mission and strengthen cyber capabilities. - Thrive in extremely ambiguous, fast-moving environments and can create clarity and momentum where none yet exists. - See yourself as a bridge between frontier AI research and cyber mission impact, and are motivated by enabling that connection. - Care about mission impact and want to help national security customers use AI responsibly and effectively. ## 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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