Cyber Enablement Lead, Government

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About the Team

The Adoption, Innovation, and Transformation team within OpenAI for Government helps government organizations turn OpenAI products into durable capabilities and measurable mission impact.

The team works alongside public servants to move from initial exploration to confident, responsible, organization-wide use of AI. Its work combines hands-on enablement, adoption strategy, deployment support, community, content, and practical transformation tailored to government missions and operating environments.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking a Cyber Enablement Lead to join the AIT team and help government cyber professionals turn Daybreak's capabilities into stronger defenses and measurable mission outcomes. This is a priority hire.

You will own Daybreak's product enablement strategy and personally design, execute, and lead training. Your work will span audience research, curriculum design, script writing, recorded demonstrations and courses, hands-on workshops, executive briefings, and cyber councils. You will work with both domestic and international customers.

You will work with Authorizing Officials (AOs), CISOs, cyber operators, developers, and senior executives, adapting the depth and format to each audience. Practitioners need practical proficiency, while executives need a strategic understanding of the 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. The company uses a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. Travel and regular work from government customer sites are required.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Daybreak enablement strategy: identify audience needs, define learning objectives, build curricula, deliver programs, and measure operational impact.
• Serve as an in-house cybersecurity expert and represent Daybreak capabilities to customer and non-customer audiences.
• Personally lead technical training, live demonstrations, workshops, and conversations with government leaders, AOs, CISOs, cyber operators, developers, and related groups.
• Provide critical product feedback from users of the cyber products and serve as a point of contact for both Daybreak Blue and Red.
• Write scripts and record product demos and training.
• Create interactive labs, digital courses, videos, facilitator materials, and practical playbooks that make complex capabilities accessible and immediately useful.
• Host and facilitate cyber councils, creating engaging discussions, drawing out questions, and helping participants learn from one another.
• Build bespoke, hands-on engagements for small specialist teams and scalable learning programs reaching thousands of practitioners.
• Connect Daybreak's capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements to real government cyber workflows across the cybersecurity lifecycle.
• Partner with product, security, deployment, and customer teams to keep enablement technically accurate, responsive to feedback, and current as products and requirements evolve.
• Assess demonstrated proficiency, track adoption and sustained use, and improve programs based on learning evidence and measurable cyber and mission outcomes.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of the cybersecurity lifecycle, including threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validation, prioritization, remediation, detection, incident response, and recovery.
• Comprehensive fluency in Daybreak's capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements, with the ability to translate that knowledge into useful government cyber training.
• A proven record of personally building and delivering cybersecurity enablement, from specialist-team engagements to scaled programs for thousands of practitioners.
• Strong communication, speaking, writing, education, and content-creation skills.
• Experience translating complex concepts into accessible experiences through clear scripts, compelling demos and training, workshops, roundtables, white-glove experiences, practical labs, and learning experiences.
• Ability to earn credibility with technical practitioners and senior leaders, explain complex capabilities accurately, and adjust language, examples, and detail to the audience.
• High emotional intelligence and an engaging teaching presence, combined with humility and empathy.
• Understanding of government cyber missions, security requirements, and operational constraints, ideally across the Department of War, federal civilian agencies, and state and local government.
• Ability to lead cross-functional work from strategy through execution, incorporate feedback, and connect enablement to demonstrated proficiency, sustained product use, and stronger defenses.
• Experience building and running teams of cyber enablement professionals.
• Familiarity with United States regulations, policies, and other matters related to cybersecurity.
• Experience serving as a public servant in a cyber capacity.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by applicable law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.