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Security Program Manager

OpenAI· Security
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Hybrid (US - Remote), Hybrid (New York City), Hybrid (Seattle), Hybrid (Washington, DC), Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

OpenAI seeks a Program Manager to build and own cross-functional security programs with a core focus on Mergers & Acquisitions, spanning diligence through Day 1 readiness, integration, onboarding, and transition to ongoing ownership, and extending to other Security initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • - Own Security & IT M&A programs, including supporting System Operations and other engineering teams in defining and performing timely diligence assessments, scoping, planning, and executing acquisition integrations. Carry the work through Day 1 readiness, onboarding of people and systems, post-close priorities, and handoff to ongoing owners.
  • - Partner with Corporate Development, IT, Infrastructure, Application, Legal, Privacy, Security, GRC, Corporate Security and other teams to understand cross-functional requirements and navigate tradeoffs. Make responsibilities and decision rights clear while bringing in the right experts for technical and risk judgments.
  • - Learn partner teams’ workflows and identify missed dependencies, bottlenecks, duplicated effort, and risks that could slow an integration or weaken its outcome. Address recurring problems at their source.
  • - Establish scalable frameworks and processes to support core programs, including defining durable program goals and core measures of success. Build useful intake paths, playbooks, onboarding checklists, decision points, and handoff standards that teams adopt in practice.
  • - Use AI and automation to organize information, surface gaps, improve documentation, route work, and track follow-through, with appropriate handling of sensitive information and human review of risk decisions.
  • - Create and maintain program-level visibility across deals, risks, milestones, and dependencies, ensuring program outcomes are delivered reliably and at high quality. Measure whether the work improves readiness, reduces manual effort, closes risks, and makes future transitions more predictable.
  • - Communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to technical and executive audiences and drive cross-functional execution with urgency and care.
  • - Own additional programs that span Security and IT as organizational priorities evolve, applying and improving the systems built through the M&A portfolio.

Qualifications

  • - Are an empathetic communicator and leader who is able to influence a variety of cross-functional and executive audiences, and build durable trust with partners.
  • - Have 5+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs, with a proven record of successful partnership in security, IT, infrastructure, privacy, trust, product risk, or other technical domains.
  • - Have carried programs from an ambiguous starting point through execution and lasting ownership.
  • - Have built a new program, workflow, or operating model yourself and can show how you earned adoption and improved results.
  • - Are curious about how teams work in practice and can find the underlying issue behind a missed handoff or recurring exception.
  • - Have used AI or automation to improve a real workflow and can explain what changed, how people adopted it, and where human judgment remains necessary.
  • - Have experience in Mergers & Acquisitions or related areas.
  • - 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.

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
  • - Mental health and wellness support
  • - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • - Annual learning and development stipend
  • - Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • - Relocation support for eligible employees
  • - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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