Manager, Cyber - AI Deployment Engineering

OpenAI • San Francisco, CA

6d • $302,000 - $335,000

About The Position

OpenAI is seeking an experienced technical leader to build and lead a team of Cybersecurity Specialists within AI Deployment Engineering. This leader will manage specialists who work hands-on with customer security teams to assess security posture, design AI-enabled security workflows, guide safe deployment, and establish scalable patterns for AI-powered security operations. This is both a people leadership role and a senior technical advisory role. You will define how OpenAI engages strategic cybersecurity customers at scale, coach cyber specialists and architects, shape customer prioritization, and ensure consistent execution across complex security deployments. You will partner closely with Sales, Product, Research, Security, Applied Engineering, Legal, and GTM to translate customer needs into deployment best practices, security patterns, and product insights.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security-related, technical, customer-facing roles such as security architecture, solutions architecture, cyber advisory, technical consulting, deployment engineering, post-sales engineering, or professional services.
• 4+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing cyber specialists, security architects, or similarly senior technical talent.
• Deep cybersecurity domain expertise across one or more areas such as application security, cloud security, vulnerability management, threat detection and response, secure software development, security operations, or security architecture.
• Deployed generative AI, developer platforms, security platforms, or cloud-based software solutions into production environments at large companies.
• Can reason credibly through modern security workflows such as penetration testing, AppSec, GRC, threat intelligence, threat hunting, red teaming, secure code review, and remediation.
• Comfortable advising CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical practitioners.
• Can translate complex technical, security, and business topics into clear decisions, practical guidance, and customer-facing recommendations.
• Balance speed, customer impact, security, reliability, governance, and safe adoption in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Create, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of cyber deployment specialists supporting strategic customers.
• Own the operating model for the Cybersecurity Specialists function, from discovery and posture assessment through validated pilots and production adoption.
• Help customers identify high-impact OpenAI use cases across vulnerability management, secure code review, application security testing, threat investigation, incident response, SOC operations, and security governance.
• Guide cyber specialists and customer security teams in designing AI-enhanced workflows, automations, evals, and scalable deployment architectures.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer implementations, security-sensitive deployments, and executive customer conversations.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Research, Security, Applied Engineering, Legal, and GTM to align customer outcomes with roadmap priorities and responsible deployment standards.
• Establish repeatable deployment playbooks, lighthouse customer patterns, reference architectures, benchmarks, and field-ready best practices.
• Synthesize customer deployment insights into actionable feedback for internal teams.
• Champion safe, reliable, and effective adoption of AI-powered security workflows across industries.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed