Head of Government Cyber Integration, OpenAI for Government

Responsibilities

• Lead government cyber integration for OpenAI for Government, creating one shared operating picture across trusted-defender access, government cyber evaluations, priority customers, model and product readiness, deployment constraints, policy decisions, and communications moments.
• Provide strategic advice and support to OpenAI's government cyber testing and evaluation, including sensitive engagements with NSA, CISA, CYBERCOM/CNMF, CAISI/AISI, allied government cyber agencies, and trusted external evaluators.
• Advise OpenAI for Government on cyber strategy, priority agencies and missions, government trusted access expansion for cyber models, classified and accredited deployment considerations, senior cyber stakeholder engagement, and how to sequence government cyber opportunities.
• Translate government cyber requirements into clear product, research, security, and deployment asks, working closely with Product/Codex Cyber, Research/Safety, Security, Public Sector Security, and deployment teams.
• Chair a regular government cyber cross-functional team that keeps owners aligned, resolves ambiguity, identifies gaps, and forces unresolved tradeoffs into writing before they become blockers.
• Maintain a living inventory of government cyber programs, open questions, owners, dependencies, advisors, candidates, customer commitments, and decisions needed.
• Partner with Product Policy, Legal, Global Affairs, and Safety on defensive-use boundaries, government cyber authorities, access governance, ZDR/Eyes-Off tradeoffs, customer attestations, internal governance escalations, and responsible-access framing.
• Translate cyber evaluation findings into concrete recommendations for government deployment, access, safeguards, safety-stack expectations, security controls, monitoring, escalation, and external engagement.
• Represent OpenAI credibly with senior government, allied, and cyber-defense stakeholders, translating between technical evidence, operational cyber needs, policy implications, and deployment decisions.
• Help identify, recruit, and onboard government cyber talent, advisors, evaluators, and partners who strengthen OpenAI's ability to support trusted public-sector defenders.

Requirements

• Held senior cybersecurity, cyber operations, intelligence, or national-security leadership roles and are trusted by government, industry, and technical cyber communities.
• Deep credibility with NSA, CISA, CYBERCOM/CNMF, CAISI/AISI, allied cyber agencies, and public/private cyber-defense partners.
• Understand how government cyber missions, authorities, procurement paths, accreditation requirements, and operational constraints differ from ordinary commercial cybersecurity motions.
• Can move fluidly between cyber operations, defensive workflows, frontier AI capability, evaluations, product strategy, security controls, policy constraints, and executive decision-making.
• Comfortable advising without owning every reporting line, and can create alignment across teams with different incentives, vocabularies, and risk tolerances.
• Can distinguish evaluation signal from noise, explain uncertainty clearly, and turn ambiguous technical findings into decisions about government deployment, access, safeguards, and external engagement.
• Think clearly about the defensive/offensive cyber boundary and understand why real national-security cyber missions often require practical judgment rather than simplistic categories.
• Have the executive presence to be OpenAI for Government's senior cyber voice externally while maintaining enough technical curiosity and humility to stay grounded in the work of product, research, security, and safety teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with frontier AI capability, evaluations, product strategy, security controls, and policy constraints in a government cyber context.