Product Marketing Manager, Cybersecurity

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

3d•$221,000 - $245,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Industry Marketing team at OpenAI is looking for a Product Marketing Manager, Cybersecurity to help define how OpenAI brings frontier AI to cyber defenders. This role is central to OpenAI's cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, which aims to help defenders identify risks earlier, act faster, and build more resilient software. The Product Marketing Manager will be responsible for shaping the market narrative, developing field-facing materials, and coordinating cross-functional efforts for product launches, customer proof, partner engagements, events, and account-based campaigns. The ideal candidate will help senior security leaders understand the value of OpenAI's models, including Trusted Access for Cyber and Codex Security, in supporting defensive operations. This role requires a blend of strategic storytelling, technical curiosity, enterprise go-to-market expertise, and program leadership to translate rapidly evolving capabilities into clear positioning, credible assets, and effective field execution.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in product marketing, industry marketing, cybersecurity marketing, enterprise GTM, or an adjacent B2B technology role.
Experience marketing technical enterprise products to security, developer, IT, risk, or C-suite audiences.
Ability to translate complex model, product, and security concepts into clear positioning, field assets, and customer-facing narratives.
Strong cross-functional program leadership instincts and ability to drive work across Product, GTM, Communications, Partnerships, Policy, Security, and Research.
Experience using customer evidence, field signals, product usage, market research, and competitive context to sharpen strategy and prioritize work.
Experience building GTM programs, operating rhythms, or new playbooks in ambiguous, high-velocity environments.
Strong writing, messaging, and editorial judgment, with a high bar for clarity, quality, accuracy, and credibility.
Deep curiosity about cybersecurity, AI, software development, enterprise adoption, and how new capabilities become meaningful customer value.
Strategic thinking about how industry marketing drives awareness, trust, pipeline, adoption, customer proof, and long-term market leadership.
Highly collaborative and effective at influencing senior stakeholders, field teams, technical teams, and external partners.
Ability to execute quickly while maintaining a high quality bar across messaging, launches, enablement, customer proof, and campaigns.
Experience in cybersecurity areas such as application security, SecOps, cloud security, vulnerability management, detection and response, or secure software development.
Experience with AI, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, API platforms, or enterprise software.
Familiarity with CISOs, security practitioners, enterprise governance, procurement, and high-trust customer environments.

Nice To Haves

Supported enterprise account-based marketing, executive events, customer stories, partner marketing, or field enablement.

Responsibilities

Own positioning and messaging for OpenAI’s cybersecurity offering, including Daybreak, Trusted Access for Cyber, Codex Security, and related product surfaces.
Build field-ready assets for account directors, solutions engineers, security leaders, and executive audiences, including first-call decks, one-pagers, use-case libraries, customer stories, and proof-point packages.
Translate frontier model capabilities into simple, accurate, and defensible go-to-market language for senior enterprise buyers and security practitioners.
Partner with Product, Research, Security, Policy, Communications, Partnerships, and GTM to coordinate launches, claims, proof points, enablement, and customer-facing guidance.
Develop campaigns and activation programs spanning launches, blogs, webinars, roundtables, executive briefings, conferences, customer proof, and account-based motions.
Turn customer deployments, vulnerability scans, and partner feedback into approved stories, evidence, ROI narratives, and repeatable industry use cases.
Serve as the connective tissue for the cybersecurity marketing workstream, keeping priorities, owners, launch readiness, open questions, and executive updates clear.
Maintain a high bar for accuracy, governance, customer trust, and responsible marketing in a sensitive and fast-moving category.