# IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and Governance **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $230K - $325K **Category**: IT **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1e68e5f6-6bda-4d11-89fd-4be731077031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a6cb4493-d9b ## Description ## Compensation $230K – $325K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. ## About the Team The SaaS and Software Governance team sits within Corporate IT and helps OpenAI scale from startup-speed tooling to mature enterprise architecture. The team owns practical governance for software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, identity, data access, and agent-enabled workflows, with a mandate to improve security, reduce software sprawl, and help business teams move faster through better foundations. ## Why This Role Matters OpenAI’s software footprint is expanding rapidly across SaaS, internally built tools, agents, integrations, APIs, third-party platforms, and application systems that OpenAI. The company needs a stronger tools architecture layer that can help teams make good decisions early, avoid duplicate tools, govern sensitive data and identities, and identify where OpenAI should build instead of buy. ## What You'll Do - Own the target architecture for enterprise software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, and agent-enabled business systems across Corporate IT. Drive deprecation and consolidate targets for enterprise software. - Build lightweight governance patterns that guide teams before software and integration decisions become hard to unwind. - Create architecture standards for identity, access, data movement, API usage, admin rights, auditability, observability, and vendor integration. - Partner with Security to ensure software architecture addresses SSO, SCIM, MFA, privileged access, non-human identities, secrets, token storage, data residency, encryption, retention, and incident response readiness. - Partner with Procurement and Finance to evaluate renewals, rationalization opportunities, enterprise agreements, and build-versus-buy decisions. - Partner deeply with application verticals such as GTM, Finance, Legal, HR, Research, Product, and Operations teams to evaluate agentic business workflows and translate them into scalable enterprise system patterns. - Review proposed SaaS and internally built tools for overlap, risk, integration quality, ownership, lifecycle, supportability, and long-term fit. - Develop reusable architecture blueprints for common capabilities such as intake, workflow, approvals, knowledge management, customer/partner 360, data integration, reporting, content management, learning, surveys, and collaboration. - Help define where OpenAI-native GPT or agent-built solutions should replace or enable point SaaS tools. - Create clear decision records and architecture artifacts that are understandable by business leaders, engineers, security reviewers, and procurement partners. - Drive software catalog maturity by connecting tool inventory, business owner, system owner, integration path, data classification, access model, renewal, risk posture, and support model. ## Core Architecture Domains - SaaS governance and software catalog maturity - Enterprise integration architecture, including APIs, event flows, middleware, and system-of-record boundaries - Identity, access, and admin model design across internal and external users - Data architecture for SaaS, customer, supplier, employee, partner, product, consumption, and connected business models. - Agentic workflow architecture and GPT-built replacement patterns - Vendor architecture reviews and enterprise agreement leverage across strategic platforms. - Security, compliance, ITGC, audit evidence, and operational readiness - Support model design, ownership, SLAs, escalation paths, and lifecycle management ## What You'll Bring - 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business systems architecture, IT architecture, SaaS governance, integration architecture, or a related technical leadership role. - Strong understanding of SaaS operating models, software lifecycle management, software asset management, and vendor/platform governance. - Experience designing integrations across systems, experience in large scale SaaS such as CRM, ERP and Marketplace platforms. - Practical knowledge of identity and access patterns including SSO, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, privileged admin models, service accounts, OAuth apps, and token governance. - Ability to evaluate software from multiple angles: business value, architecture fit, security posture, data exposure, cost, supportability, user experience, and vendor strategy. - Comfort operating in ambiguity, building structure where little exists, and influencing senior stakeholders without relying only on formal authority. - Ability to write clear architecture decision records, governance standards, system diagrams, business cases, and executive-ready recommendations. - Strong partner orientation: able to help teams move faster while raising the quality of decisions. - Curiosity about AI-native enterprise architecture and where GPT, Codex, and agentic workflows can replace or enable traditional SaaS patterns. ## Preferred Experience - Experience scaling IT or business systems from startup-stage tooling into mature enterprise architecture. - Experience with software rationalization, SaaS enablement and deprecation, vendor consolidation, or enterprise license optimization. - Experience with architecting systems in a high-growth environment. - Experience building governance for internally developed tools, low-code/no-code platforms, agents, or employee-built automation. - Experience working closely with Security, GRC, Legal, Procurement, and Finance on cross-functional risk and control programs. ## Skills ### Required - SaaS governance - enterprise architecture - integration architecture - identity and access management - API usage - data movement - security posture - vendor/platform governance ### Nice to have - software rationalization - SaaS enablement and deprecation - vendor consolidation - enterprise license optimization - architecting systems in a high-growth environment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1e68e5f6-6bda-4d11-89fd-4be731077031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)