Description
Compensation
- San Francisco, Seattle or New York: $207K – $285K • Offers Equity
- Zone A: $186.3K – $256.5K • Offers Equity
- Zone B: $165.4K – $228K • 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
OpenAI builds powerful AI systems like ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and enterprise products that serve millions of users across the globe. As we scale, securing our infrastructure, protecting sensitive data, and meeting global compliance standards are essential to our success and societal impact.
Security at OpenAI is a cross-cutting function that spans infrastructure, applied engineering, legal, policy, and product. Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical leadership role in aligning teams and delivering execution at scale and this role will be foundational in shaping how we secure OpenAI’s systems, users, and commitments.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional security, privacy, IT and compliance initiatives at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and policy. You will execute complex programs that reduce internal data access, prevent misuse, and ship security capabilities. You will focus your efforts on the most critical initiatives within Security, crossing the spectrum of insider threat, information security, physical security, and information technology challenges.
This role is deeply technical and execution-focused. It requires a structured operator who thrives in ambiguity, partners effectively across boundaries, and applies principled judgment to scale trust, governance, and security across OpenAI’s systems and products.
Responsibilities
- Drive execution of critical security and compliance programs such as vulnerability management, merger and acquisition security and integration, infrastructure hardening, and datacenter security management. You will need to deeply collaborate on technical architecture and resolve technical problems in partnership with engineering.
- Partner with IT, Infrastructure, Application, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to build scalable programs, and deliver critical security outcomes across multiple disciplines, including insider threat, information security, physical security, and information technology.
- Establish scalable frameworks and build programs around critical security initiatives including vulnerability management, evidence collection, incident response coordination, supply chain risk management, and device security.
- Track and enforce OpenAI’s privacy and security requirements by translating commitments into engineering milestones and driving their full implementation across systems.
- Create and maintain program-level visibility across risk areas, security milestones, and cross-org dependencies,ensuring outcomes are delivered reliably and at high quality.
- Communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to technical and executive audiences and drive cross-functional execution with urgency and care.
Requirements
- Are an empathetic communicator and leader,able to influence across technical and non-technical audiences, and build durable trust with partners.
- Have 5+ years of experience leading complex technical programs focused on infrastructure security, data privacy, compliance, or enterprise platform capabilities.
- Are deeply fluent in the intersection of engineering systems, security controls, and regulatory expectations,and are able to bring clarity and structure across all three.
- Thrive in high-trust environments, bring rigor and systems thinking to ambiguity, and operate with a bias for aligned execution over org boundaries.
- Are structured, detail-oriented, and rigorous in ensuring quality, accountability, and durable delivery.
- Have a proven record of success driving highly cross-functional efforts across engineering, infrastructure, legal, compliance, and product stakeholders.