At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Washington, DC
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.
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About the role
- The Cyber Enablement Lead will join the Training and Enablement team to help government cyber professionals turn Daybreak’s capabilities into stronger defenses and measurable mission outcomes.
- The role owns Daybreak's product enablement strategy, designing and personally executing training spanning audience research, curriculum design, script writing, recorded demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and executive briefings.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Daybreak enablement strategy: identify audience needs, define learning objectives, build curricula, deliver programs, and measure operational impact.
- Personally lead technical training, live demonstrations, workshops, and conversations with AOs, CISOs, cyber operators, and developers.
- Write scripts and record product demos and training, creating interactive labs, digital courses, videos, facilitator materials, and practical playbooks.
- Host and facilitate cyber councils, creating engaging discussions, drawing out questions, and helping participants learn from one another.
- Build bespoke, hands-on engagements for small specialist teams and scalable learning programs that reach thousands of practitioners.
- Connect Daybreak’s capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements to real government cyber workflows across the cybersecurity lifecycle.
- Partner closely with product, security, deployment, and customer teams to keep enablement technically accurate, responsive to feedback, and current.
- Assess demonstrated proficiency, track adoption and sustained use, and improve programs based on learning evidence and measurable cyber and mission outcomes.
Requirements
- Bring deep knowledge of the cybersecurity lifecycle, including threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validation, prioritization, remediation, detection, incident response, and recovery.
- Have comprehensive fluency in Daybreak’s capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements, and can translate that knowledge into useful government cyber training.
- Have a proven record of personally building and delivering cybersecurity product enablement, from specialist-team engagements to scaled programs for thousands of practitioners.
- Are a strong writer, educator, and content creator who can develop clear scripts, record compelling demos and training, and design practical labs and learning experiences.
- Can earn credibility with technical practitioners and senior leaders, explain complex capabilities accurately, and adjust your language, examples, and level of detail to the audience.
- Combine high emotional intelligence and an engaging teaching presence with humility and empathy.
- Understand government cyber missions, security requirements, and operational constraints, ideally across DOW, federal civilian agencies, and state and local government.
- Can lead cross-functional work from strategy through execution, incorporate feedback, and connect enablement to demonstrated proficiency, sustained product use, and stronger defenses.
Workplace
- Hybrid work model of three days in the office per week
- Travel required
Skills
- Daybreak
