Senior Technical Program Manager - Security

Overview

About the Team OpenAI builds powerful AI systems like ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and enterprise products that serve millions of users across the globe. As we scale, securing our infrastructure, protecting sensitive data, and meeting global compliance standards are essential to our success and societal impact. Security at OpenAI is a cross-cutting function that spans infrastructure, applied engineering, legal, policy, a

What you'll do

• You will execute complex programs that reduce internal data access, prevent misuse, and ship security capabilities.
• You will focus your efforts on the most critical initiatives within Security, crossing the spectrum of insider threat, information security, physical security, and information technology challenges.
• This role is deeply technical and execution-focused.
• It requires a structured operator who thrives in ambiguity, partners effectively across boundaries, and applies principled judgment to scale trust, governance, and security across OpenAI’s systems and products.
• Drive execution of critical security and compliance programs such as vulnerability management, merger and acquisition security and integration, infrastructure hardening, and datacenter security management.
• You will need to deeply collaborate on technical architecture and resolve technical problems in partnership with engineering.
• Partner with IT, Infrastructure, Application, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to build scalable programs, and deliver critical security outcomes across multiple disciplines, including insider threat, information security, physical security, and information technology.
• Establish scalable frameworks and build programs around critical security initiatives including vulnerability management, evidence collection, incident response coordination, supply chain risk management, and device security.

Requirements

• Create and maintain program-level visibility across risk areas, security milestones, and cross-org dependencies-ensuring outcomes are delivered reliably and at high quality.
• Communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to technical and executive audiences and drive cross-functional execution with urgency and care.

Skills