Strategic Delivery Lead, Cyber

The role

The Strategic Delivery Lead (Cyber) will identify and deliver complex AI deployments for the U.S. national security and cyber enterprise. You will manage technical delivery workstreams and partner with national security mission owners to solve problems using the OpenAI Platform API and ChatGPT Enterprise.

What you will do

• Forge and manage strategic partnerships with national security and cyber mission users.
• Serve as the accountable lead for delivering high-impact national security and cyber-focused engagements.
• Translate technical progress, risks, and requirements between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Translate national security AI use cases into actionable delivery plans.
• Partner with technical teams to frame complex problems into actionable, scoped projects.
• Establish best practices for milestone tracking and delivery operations.
• Build internal consensus across teams with competing priorities.
• Lead regular progress reviews with national security and cyber stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks to maintain program velocity.
• Navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements to keep teams aligned.

Required qualifications

• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, national security consulting, delivery leadership, or senior program management roles
• Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives directly with national security departments or agencies
• Led complex national security or cyber-focused programs in enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, consulting, cybersecurity, or transformation environments
• Proven track record influencing and shaping customer decision-making at executive/board level
• Experience delivering outcomes in lean, fast-moving environments by influencing without authority
• Strong track record of execution in delivering ambitious goals on complex cross-functional projects
• Prior experience managing large scale AI/ML or enterprise API-based deployments

Nice to have

• Active Counterintelligence or Full Scope Polygraph

Before you apply

• Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance required
• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The OpenAI for Government team works to empower public servants with secure, compliant AI tools.