Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

We are seeking a Strategic Delivery Lead to join our OpenAI for Government team, which brings frontier AI to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and broader national security enterprise.

The successful candidate will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI's highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organisations. They will work across IC elements and mission partners to help analysts, collectors, operators, and technical teams apply frontier AI to their highest-priority missions.

Responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, Chief Information Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, and acquisition leaders to identify and prioritise high-value, mission-ready AI use cases.
• Own delivery of complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorisation, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption.
• Translate intelligence mission requirements, analytic tradecraft, data constraints, and security policies into clear technical requirements, architectural decisions, delivery plans, and executive-level communications.
• 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 defence, multilingual research, knowledge retrieval, and other priority missions.
• Lead cross-functional teams spanning 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 delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, and measurable indicators of mission impact, user adoption, model quality, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate deployment and integration requirements across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains.
• Partner with customer security, privacy, civil liberties, legal, and analytic leaders to incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring consistent with the IC's AI ethics principles and analytic standards.
• Anticipate and mitigate technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting.
• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities.
• Understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organisations, operating models, and analytic tradecraft.
• Experience leading complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs.
• Executive presence and a record of advising agency leadership, mission owners, contracting officers, and senior technical stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.