Executive in Residence, Cyber

The role

An accomplished cybersecurity executive will help security leaders turn frontier AI into practical cyber defense. You will act as an industry voice and trusted peer to senior customers and partners while working with technical, product, and research teams.

What you will do

• Represent OpenAI in industry conversations through keynotes, panels, and executive briefings.
• Develop original talks and articles based on operating experience.
• Convene senior security leaders through dinners, roundtables, and peer discussions.
• Build relationships across regions or priority industries.
• Work with account and technical teams to identify defensive workflows and build executive sponsorship.
• Shape pilots with clear objectives and owners.
• Capture customer needs and translate them into recommendations for product and research teams.
• Lead selected strategic initiatives and projects.
• Help teams prepare for senior security conversations and develop briefing materials.

Required qualifications

• Experience as a CISO or equivalent security executive with direct accountability for a substantial security program.
• Established reputation among senior security leaders.
• Strong speaking record and ability to lead peer discussions.
• Technical depth to discuss security architecture and defensive operations.
• Judgment to explain AI capabilities, limitations, and implications to executives and boards.
• Trusted relationships with CISOs and other senior technology leaders.
• Experience turning executive alignment into action.
• Ability to listen closely and represent customer needs accurately.
• Regular travel for customer meetings and industry engagements.

Nice to have

• Deep experience in technology, retail, telecommunications, life sciences, or healthcare.
• Strong regional security leadership network.
• Practical work applying AI to security.
• Experience leading enterprise technology adoption.
• Experience advising organizations through significant changes in security operations.
• Published practitioner work, influential research, or sustained contributions to security communities.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants 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.