Senior Technical Program Manager - Security
At its midpoint, $225k/yr, this role pays less than the $229k/yr midpoint for Security Leadership openings today (usual band $200k–$385k/yr).
The full posting
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.
In this role, you will
- 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.
You might thrive in this role if you
- 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.
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 an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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 applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Where you can work
This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in United States.
Text as OpenAI published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 8 questions.
- 1.When can you start a new role?Date
- 2.Are you authorized to work in the country where the job is located?Yes or no
- 3.Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status in this country?Yes or no
- 4.Are you able to work from our US office three days per week?Yes or no
- 5.Applicant Arbitration Agreement AcknowledgementPick any
- 6.I hereby certify that I have not knowingly withheld any information that might adversely affect my chances for employment and that the answers given by me are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I further certify that I, the underPick any: I confirm I have read the above.
- 7.Do you have an active Full Scope Polygraph clearance?Yes or no
- 8.Are you willing to work on-site at our clients office 5 days a week in Maryland?Yes or no
Taken from OpenAI's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: OpenAI
Develops the GPT models and ChatGPT; its security engineers defend infrastructure, harden agent products and investigate threat actors misusing its models.
Pay and benefits: Salaried full-time roles with equity, which OpenAI grants widely to staff.
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