Strategic Delivery Lead, Cyber
Washington, DC · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- 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 Strategic Delivery Lead (Cyber) will identify and deliver on some of OpenAI’s most complex and high-impact deployments for the U.S. national security and cyber enterprise.
- In this role, you will work closely with national security partners and cyber mission owners to make their hardest problems solvable on the OpenAI Platform API and ChatGPT Enterprise.
- This is a high-trust, high-autonomy position requiring deep program management expertise, executive presence, and experience operating in cyber or national security environments.
Responsibilities
- Forge and manage strategic partnerships with key national security and cyber mission users to identify and deliver on the most impactful AI and AGI use cases.
- Serve as the accountable lead for delivering high-impact national security and cyber-focused engagements tied to defined contractual milestones.
- Act as a key translator between technical teams and business stakeholders, clearly articulating technical progress, risks, requirements, and dependencies.
- Work with government, defense, industry partners, and academia to identify key concepts for national security AI use including cyber defense, threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management workflows.
- Partner deeply with technical teams (FDEs, SAs, Research) to frame complex business and technical problems into actionable, scoped projects.
- Establish best practices around milestone tracking, internal coordination, and delivery operations at scale.
- Build internal consensus across teams with competing priorities, secure commitments from stakeholders you do not manage, and drive complex projects to completion with limited dedicated resources.
- Lead regular progress reviews with national security and cyber stakeholders, ensuring transparency and confidence in delivery.
- Identify delivery risks early and work cross-functionally to mitigate blockers and maintain program velocity.
- Navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements with composure, helping internal and external teams stay aligned.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, national security consulting, delivery leadership, or senior program management roles, driving complex technical initiatives across cross-functional teams to deliver results for national security missions.
- Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance
- Willingness to travel up to 50% and work on-site with national security and cyber customers
Workplace
- Requires willingness to travel up to 50%
- Requires working on-site with national security and cyber customers
Skills
- ChatGPT Enterprise
- OpenAI Platform API
- AI/ML
- Cybersecurity
