Senior Technical Program Manager - Security
Senior TPM driving cross-functional security, privacy, and compliance programs across infrastructure, product, and policy at OpenAI. Requires 5+ years leading complex technical programs in security or compliance.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Drive execution of critical security and compliance programs such as vulnerability management, merger and acquisition security and integration, infrastructure hardening, and datacenter security management.
- Partner with IT, Infrastructure, Application, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to build scalable programs and deliver critical security outcomes across insider threat, information security, physical security, and information technology.
- Establish scalable frameworks and build programs around critical security initiatives including vulnerability management, evidence collection, incident response coordination, supply chain risk management, and device security.
- Track and enforce OpenAI’s privacy and security requirements by translating commitments into engineering milestones and driving their full implementation across systems.
- Create and maintain program-level visibility across risk areas, security milestones, and cross-org dependencies—ensuring 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience leading complex technical programs focused on infrastructure security, data privacy, compliance, or enterprise platform capabilities.
- Deep fluency in the intersection of engineering systems, security controls, and regulatory expectations.
- Proven record of success driving highly cross-functional efforts across engineering, infrastructure, legal, compliance, and product stakeholders.
- Structured, detail-oriented, and rigorous in ensuring quality, accountability, and durable delivery.
- Empathetic communicator and leader—able to influence across technical and non-technical audiences, and build durable trust with partners.
- Thrive in high-trust environments, bring rigor and systems thinking to ambiguity, and operate with a bias for aligned execution over org boundaries.
Skills
Technical Program Management, Infrastructure Security, Vulnerability Management, Compliance, Data Privacy, Incident Response, Supply Chain Risk Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Risk Management, Security Controls
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