Security Program Manager

Security - US - Remote, New York City, Seattle, Washington, DC, and San Francisco 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, supporting employees’ velocity, and meeting global compliance standards are essential to our success and societal impact. Security at OpenAI is a cross-cutting organization that includes Security, Privacy, IT, GRC, Corporate Security, and other teams. Program Managers play a critical role in aligning teams and delivering execution at scale. About the Role We’re seeking a Program Manager to build and own programs that span OpenAI’s Security organization, with a core focus on Mergers & Acquisitions. You will work across domains from diligence through Day 1 readiness, integration, onboarding, and transition to ongoing ownership. You will also apply what you build to other priorities that span Security teams. You will learn how work actually moves between teams, spot gaps and unclear ownership, and build practical systems that make complex transitions easier to execute. This role is deeply cross-functional and execution-focused. It requires a structured operator who thrives in ambiguityation and consequential decisions. In this role, you will: Own Security & IT M&A programsing timely diligence assessments, and 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 informationation 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. You might thrive in this role if you: 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. 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 the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation $129.6K – $310K + Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-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. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.