Security Program Manager
Remote · New York City · Seattle · Washington, DC · San Francisco · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote · New York City · Seattle · Washington, DC · San Francisco
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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About the role
- OpenAI is seeking a Program Manager to build and own programs spanning the Security organization with a core focus on Mergers and Acquisitions.
- The role requires working across domains from diligence through Day 1 readiness, integration, onboarding, and transition to ongoing ownership.
- Responsibilities involve partnering cross-functionally, utilizing AI and automation, and establishing scalable frameworks and processes to support core programs.
Responsibilities
- Own Security and IT M&A programs, including supporting System Operations and engineering teams in defining and performing timely diligence assessments, scoping, planning, and executing acquisition integrations.
- Partner with Corporate Development, IT, Infrastructure, Application, Legal, Privacy, Security, GRC, Corporate Security and other teams to understand cross-functional requirements and navigate tradeoffs.
- Learn partner teams’ workflows and identify missed dependencies, bottlenecks, duplicated effort, and risks that could slow an integration or weaken its outcome.
- Establish scalable frameworks and processes to support core programs, including defining durable program goals and core measures of success.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience carrying programs from an ambiguous starting point through execution and lasting ownership.
- Experience building a new program, workflow, or operating model and demonstrating how adoption was earned and results were improved.
- Experience using AI or automation to improve a real workflow.
- Experience in Mergers and Acquisitions or related areas.
Workplace
- Location options include US - Remote, New York City, Seattle, Washington, DC, and San Francisco.
Skills
- AI
- Automation
