Enterprise Security Lead

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About The Team

OpenAI’s Security organization supports the mission of deploying AGI for the benefit of all by ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. Within the Security organization, the IT team ensures our diverse team of researchers, engineers, and staff have the tools they need to work comfortably, securely, and with minimal interruptions.

The Enterprise Security team is responsible for securing OpenAI’s environments, including endpoint fleets, corporate systems, lab and test environments, on-premises hardware, identity and access management systems, SaaS applications, and user-facing infrastructure. The team designs, implements, and enforces modern security controls that protect data and ensure operational resilience. We partner with teams across the company to build secure defaults, scale security capabilities, and enable a productive, trusted workplace for OpenAI employees.

About The Role

As the Enterprise Security Lead , you will lead the team responsible for securing OpenAI’s internal enterprise environments. You’ll define and execute a security strategy that balances protection, user experience, and operational scalability. This includes hardening endpoints and SaaS infrastructure, building identity and access capabilities, implementing zero trust principles, and using AI to innovate new security controls. You will be the first line of defense against sophisticated and persistent adversaries targeting OpenAI.

You will manage and grow a team of engineers, partner with senior stakeholders across the company, and drive initiatives that meaningfully improve OpenAI’s security posture. This is a hands-on leadership role : while your primary responsibility will be setting direction and managing execution, you must have a strong technical foundation and be able to engage deeply on complex security challenges.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

You Will In This Role

• Lead and grow a top-tier team of security engineers; set strategy, cultivate operational excellence, and coach with high empathy and high standards.
• Own the enterprise defense mission end-to-end across macOS, Windows, Linux, labs, novel devices, servers, networks, SaaS, and bespoke infrastructure.
• Lead efforts to build secure, reliable, novel, and scalable internal security capabilities to advance the art of defense.
• Spearhead the design and implementation of defense in depth, assume breach, and zero trust principles across the enterprise environment.
• Partner closely with other security teams to prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated adversaries targeting our information systems.
• Foster strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure we stay the most productive, high-velocity, secure AI lab in the world.
• Continually stay ahead of emerging threats and trends to keep OpenAI’s enterprise environment secure and resilient.
• Champion the use of AI and automation to improve security posture and response time.

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About OpenAI

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 a powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core.

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 legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including Fair Chance Ordinances and related policies. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy.

Compensation Range : $325K

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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