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OpenAI is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex security, privacy, IT, and compliance programs across infrastructure, product, policy, and legal teams. The role centers on delivering initiatives such as vulnerability management, infrastructure hardening, M&A security integration, incident-response coordination, supply-chain risk, device security, and datacenter security. This is a highly cross-functional, technical execution role requiring strong security-domain fluency and the ability to translate requirements into accountable engineering milestones. The TPM will manage dependencies, risks, decisions, and executive communications while operating effectively in ambiguity. Candidates need 5+ years leading technical programs involving infrastructure security, privacy, compliance, or enterprise platforms.
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Dear Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the Senior Technical Program Manager - Security role at OpenAI. My experience leading cross-functional technical programs across security, infrastructure, privacy, and compliance aligns strongly with the need to translate critical commitments into measurable engineering outcomes.
I bring a structured, execution-focused approach to managing complex dependencies, security risks, technical tradeoffs, and stakeholder communication across engineering and business teams. I would welcome the opportunity to help OpenAI scale resilient security programs that protect systems, data, users, and the organization’s mission.
Thank you for your consideration.
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I would outline the program objective, risk being addressed, stakeholder groups, delivery plan, governance model, and measurable outcome. For example, I led a vulnerability-management improvement program by aligning infrastructure, application engineering, IT, and compliance teams around remediation SLAs, exception handling, and executive reporting, resulting in improved remediation consistency and risk visibility.
I begin by clarifying the requirement, scope, control objective, evidence expectations, and risk tolerance with legal, privacy, and security partners. I then convert it into technical milestones, owners, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and an evidence-collection plan, using recurring reviews to ensure implementation remains aligned with the underlying commitment.
I would make the risk, impact, dependencies, and decision options explicit, including the consequences of delay and any compensating controls. I would work with engineering leadership to identify the smallest safe deliverable, sequence the work realistically, and escalate only when a clear prioritization decision is required.
I would track asset coverage, vulnerability discovery-to-triage time, remediation rates by severity, SLA compliance, overdue exceptions, recurrence trends, exploitability context, and the quality of evidence. I would segment metrics by system criticality and ownership so leaders can focus on the highest-risk gaps rather than aggregate volume alone.
I communicate in terms of business impact, affected systems, likelihood, severity, current controls, residual risk, and the decision needed. I keep the executive narrative concise while maintaining a detailed technical record for operators, ensuring stakeholders understand both the urgency and the practical path to mitigation.
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, and product. Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical leadership role in aligning teams and delivering execution at scale and this role will be foundational in shaping how we secure OpenAI’s systems, users, and commitments.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional security, privacy, IT and compliance initiatives at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and policy. 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.
In this role, you will:
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.
Track and enforce OpenAI’s privacy and security requirements by translating commitments into engineering milestones and driving their full implementation across systems.
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.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Are an empathetic communicator and leader—able to influence across technical and non-technical audiences, and build durable trust with partners.
Have 5+ years of experience leading complex technical programs focused on infrastructure security, data privacy, compliance, or enterprise platform capabilities.
Are deeply fluent in the intersection of engineering systems, security controls, and regulatory expectations—and are able to bring clarity and structure across all three.
Thrive in high-trust environments, bring rigor and systems thinking to ambiguity, and operate with a bias for aligned execution over org boundaries.
Are structured, detail-oriented, and rigorous in ensuring quality, accountability, and durable delivery.
Have a proven record of success driving highly cross-functional efforts across engineering, infrastructure, legal, compliance, and product stakeholders.
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.
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. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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