Senior Security Program Lead - Infrastructure & Compliance

OpenAI; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Security to lead cross-functional programs spanning infrastructure, privacy, IT, and compliance. You will drive security initiatives, coordinate across engineering, legal, and product teams, and scale governance across OpenAI's systems and products.

The role emphasizes technical execution, structured planning, and clear communication with executives while maintaining high standards for security and data protection across a fast-growing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading complex technical programs in security, privacy, or compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, legal, and product teams.
• Structured, rigorous approach to delivery in high-trust environments.
• Deep understanding of governance, risk, and security controls.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Security program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory compliance understanding

Infrastructure security knowledge

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Security to lead cross-functional programs spanning infrastructure, privacy, IT, and compliance. You will drive security initiatives, coordinate across engineering, legal, and product teams, and scale governance across OpenAI's systems and products.

The role emphasizes technical execution, structured planning, and clear communication with executives while maintaining high standards for security and data protection across a fast-growing