Strategic Delivery Lead, Critical Infrastructure

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The OpenAI for Government team brings frontier AI to public-sector and national security missions. The team partners with government agencies and industry counterparts to apply OpenAI's API and enterprise products to high-priority challenges, with attention to security, privacy, reliability, and responsible use.

This role supports government agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and technology partners in applying frontier AI to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience across sectors including energy, water, healthcare, financial services, and the defense industrial base.

Responsibilities

• Identify, shape, and deliver high-impact engagements supporting the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure.
• Translate priorities such as cyber defense, vulnerability management, incident preparedness and response, infrastructure risk analysis, and operational coordination into secure, technically feasible AI deployments.
• Build relationships with government mission owners, cyber leaders, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure operators, and technology partners.
• Own complex engagements from discovery and solution shaping through pilots, security reviews, deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption.
• Establish delivery roadmaps, integrated schedules, risk tracking, decision processes, customer reporting, requirements, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop public-private delivery efforts with federal cyber agencies, sector partners, cloud providers, and cybersecurity companies.
• Lead delivery of AI capabilities supporting vulnerability discovery and prioritization, secure software development, threat analysis, incident response, and infrastructure risk assessment.
• Coordinate deployment requirements across government and enterprise environments, including sensitive or restricted networks where appropriate.
• Address data handling, identity and access controls, integration dependencies, and customer security requirements.
• Establish evaluations, human oversight, adversarial testing, and ongoing monitoring with security, privacy, legal, and operational stakeholders.
• Define and track customer value measures, including user adoption, model quality, operational readiness, time saved, and defensive effectiveness.
• Bring customer and partner insights to Research, Product, and Engineering teams to inform capability development and deployment priorities.
• Support opportunity qualification, proposal development, and statements of work with Account Directors and partners.
• Own end-to-end execution of delivery workstreams with Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, or complex technical programs, including substantial experience working with U.S. government agencies and industry partners.
• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and work on-site with customers and partners.
• Understanding of the U.S. critical infrastructure ecosystem, including federal cyber agencies, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and public-private partnerships.
• Experience leading complex programs or public-private initiatives from strategy and planning through execution and sustained operations.
• Executive presence and experience advising senior government, industry, and technical leaders.
• Technical fluency with researchers, engineers, and cyber practitioners.
• Understanding of modern AI solution architectures, including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and data integration.
• Ability to translate customer outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, and evaluation plans.
• Understanding of security and reliability constraints affecting critical infrastructure, including the relationship between information technology, operational technology, and continuity of essential services.
• Ability to build partnerships across government, industry, research, and technical teams.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health Savings Accounts, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, caregiver, and sick or safe leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.