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OpenAI’s Corporate Security team protects our people, places, and operations so that employees can safely pursue our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The team partners across the company to enable a secure, resilient, and trusted environment that supports both safety and innovation.

We operate in dynamic, high-visibility environments, including dense urban offices and major events where discretion, credibility, and sound judgment are essential. The Corporate Security team works closely with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, Communications, HR, IT, and external partners to maintain a proactive and people-first security posture.

The CorpSec Program Manager plays a critical role in the advancement, coordination, and maturity of OpenAI’s global corporate security operations. This position is responsible for managing and designing scalable, cross-functional programs that protect OpenAI’s people, facilities, and critical infrastructure.

This role requires exceptional program management skills, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to lead multiple complex initiatives simultaneously. Sitting within the Special Projects function, the position owns a defined portfolio across Global Operations, Protection, and Special Projects, including operational governance, protection-related initiatives, project delivery, documentation, and coordination with internal and external partners.

• Lead the development and global implementation of Corporate Security programs, runbooks, SOPs, and decision-making frameworks.

• Oversee and coordinate initiatives across all Corporate Security pillars, ensuring seamless communication, accountability, and documentation.

• Manage multiple high-impact projects simultaneously, ensuring milestones are met and outcomes are aligned with strategic security and business objectives.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for security protection programs to ensure accountability and continuous improvement.

• Partner with internal teams, Legal, REW, IT, People, and Communications, to ensure operational readiness, compliance, and integration with organizational priorities.

• Coordinate security vendor and contract-service programs, including documentation, stakeholder alignment, service expectations, and operational follow-through.

• Collaborate with Global Ops and Protection teams to develop and scale programs supporting Corporate Security initiatives and driving consistent planning, governance, and operational readiness across the organization.

• Develop and manage documentation, communications, and training materials that strengthen awareness, preparedness, and operational consistency.

• Identify and drive opportunities to scale and improve operational efficiency through process optimization and technology integration.

• Contribute to the development of a resilient, inclusive, and high-performing security culture by mentoring team members and reinforcing best practices.

• Support Corporate Security through procurement coordination ensuring timely acquisition of goods and services, accurate documentation, and alignment with internal financial policies.

• 7+ years of relevant experience in security operations, program management, or a related discipline within corporate, government, or high-technology environments.

• Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs that span geographies and disciplines.

• Strong understanding of physical security systems, vendor management, and operational governance frameworks.

• Demonstrated success developing and implementing SOPs and operational standards for diverse teams.

• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, timelines, and deliverables with precision and accountability.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of influencing and aligning cross-functional partners.

• Experience building and scaling programs through process design, governance, and change management, creating operational structures that improve consistency, visibility, and execution across teams.

• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, manage ambiguity, and deliver results independently.

• A people-first approach to leadership and a commitment to fostering inclusion, mentorship, and operational excellence.

• A high level of proficiency in Google Workspace.

• Experience and aptitude using OpenAI’s Chat and Codex models.

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.

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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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