Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

Details

The OpenAI for Government team brings frontier AI to the U.S. Intelligence Community and broader national security enterprise. The team partners with intelligence professionals to deploy secure, compliant AI capabilities—including ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov, and the OpenAI API—in mission-aligned environments that meet rigorous security, privacy, reliability, and responsible-AI requirements.

The Strategic Delivery Lead for the Intelligence Community will identify, shape, and deliver high-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. This role translates mission priorities—including all-source analysis, intelligence production, collection management, open-source and geospatial exploitation, cyber threat analysis, knowledge discovery, and analyst productivity—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments.

The role partners with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, government mission teams, acquisition stakeholders, and technical teams. The Strategic Delivery Lead owns end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams led by Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams, including requirements, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, production rollout, delivery governance, and contractual milestones.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with Intelligence Community mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and acquisition leaders to identify and prioritize mission-ready AI use cases.
• Own complex Intelligence Community engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption.
• Translate intelligence mission requirements, analytic tradecraft, data constraints, and security policies into technical requirements, architectural decisions, delivery plans, and executive communications.
• Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings.
• Partner with IC elements, mission integrators, cloud and infrastructure providers, industry partners, and academia to develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection and exploitation workflows, cyber defense, multilingual research, knowledge retrieval, and other priority missions.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Research, Product, Security, Legal, Privacy, and customer mission teams to design, evaluate, and deliver generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflow solutions.
• Establish program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, delivery operating rhythms, and measurable indicators of mission impact, user adoption, model quality, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate deployment and integration across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains.
• Work with security and accreditation stakeholders on identity and access management, data handling, cross-domain constraints, the Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate, and applicable IC security requirements such as ICD 503.
• Incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring consistent with IC AI ethics principles and analytic standards.
• Anticipate and mitigate technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks while managing changing requirements, integration dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and escalation paths.
• Support relationship-building, opportunity qualification, solution shaping, and proposal development with Account Directors and partners, including commercial strategy, statements of work, customer acceptance, and long-term IC account growth.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting, including substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers.
• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance. An existing full-scope polygraph and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements are strongly preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities.
• Understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organizations, operating models, and analytic tradecraft, including experience supporting agencies or elements such as ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, or NRO.
• Experience leading complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs from discovery through operational deployment in mission-sensitive environments.
• Executive presence and experience advising agency leadership, mission owners, contracting officers, and senior technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate mission outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, evaluation plans, and measurable success metrics.
• Experience delivering systems across multiple classification levels and navigating secure cloud and restricted environments.
• Familiarity with IC enterprise IT, identity and access controls, data governance, cross-domain constraints, RMF/ATO processes, and ICD 503.
• Understanding of modern AI solution architectures, including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, data integration, model evaluation, and operational security, reliability, and adoption considerations.
• Knowledge of responsible-AI practices for intelligence missions, including human-in-the-loop review, analytic objectivity, source and data provenance, privacy and civil liberties safeguards, explainability, adversarial testing, and ongoing model monitoring.
• Ability to build partnerships across analysts, operators, researchers, engineers, security and privacy specialists, contracting teams, mission executives, and industry partners.
• Technical fluency to connect emerging AI and AGI capabilities to customer requirements and operational constraints.
• Commitment to national security outcomes and helping Intelligence Community customers use AI safely, responsibly, and effectively.

Benefits

• Base salary of $266,000–$370,000 per year.
• Equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent care expenses 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 law.
• 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 taxable fringe benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.