About the company
OpenAIās mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team is composed of PR/Media Relations, Events, Design, and other external-facing functions. The teamās ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI. The Events team is a dynamic group dedicated to crafting extraordinary experiences that encompass our company's values and mission. Our team is driven by a passion for bringing people together to connect in meaningful ways.
Job Summary
In this role, you will:
šSpearhead the overall security vision, architecture, execution, and sustained operations to protect data center infrastructure across a global footprint. šRecruit, mentor, and lead a diverse, distributed, and multidisciplinary team of security professionals across multiple timezones to securely enable mission impact. šIntegrate hardwareārooted trust, segmented enclaves, sideāchannel mitigations, and insiderārisk countermeasures tuned for persistent, wellāresourced adversaries. šDrive security design reviews, threat modeling, supplyāchain risk assessments, secure provisioning, runtime monitoring, incident response, and structured decommissioning. šDeeply collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to define, implement, enforce, and evolve security best practices, including network segmentation, physical security, identity management, and access control policies. šEngage with suppliers and partners to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with third-party hardware, firmware, and software dependencies. šPrepare and deliver executive-level updates on risk posture, compliance, incident status, and program progress. šEnsure our facilities meet the strictest compliance requirements. šContinually evolve the security of our data centers alongside advances in cybersecurity controls, adversary activity, and commensurate with increased sophistication and risks of our frontier models.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
š15+ years in security, including 10+ years leading large-scale infrastructure or datacenter programs with global scope. šProven track record protecting hyperscale, colocation, or hybrid environments against sophisticated adversaries, including insider threats and close-access attacks. šDemonstrated success recruiting, developing, and retaining multidisciplinary security teams across time zones and cultures. šDeep knowledge of security design and operations, including host-level hardening, network segmentation, IAM/PAM, secure provisioning, firmware and bare-metal security, and governance frameworks. šStrong familiarity with control frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2) and experience driving compliance in regulated environments.
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