OpenAI

Senior Technical Program Manager - Security

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in leading complex technical programs
  • Expertise in infrastructure security, data privacy, compliance, or enterprise platforms
  • Strong understanding of engineering systems, security controls, and regulatory requirements
  • Deep communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Proven track record in cross-functional collaboration involving multiple disciplines
  • Structured and detail-oriented with a focus on quality and delivery

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of security and compliance programs like vulnerability management and datacenter security
  • Collaborate with IT, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to deliver security outcomes
  • Establish frameworks and programs around vulnerability management and incident response
  • Translate privacy and security commitments into actionable engineering milestones
  • Maintain program-level visibility across risk areas and cross-organizational dependencies
  • Communicate status, risks, and decisions effectively to both technical and executive audiences

Benefits

  • Opportunities to work on critical initiatives in security and compliance
  • Engage in a deeply technical and execution-focused environment
  • Collaborate across diverse teams including engineering and legal
  • Develop scalable frameworks addressing security challenges
  • Join a team that thrives on empathy in communication and trust-building
Full Job Description
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 artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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