About the Team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI for Government works with U.S. and allied government institutions to support the responsible adoption of AI across defense, intelligence, federal civilian, state and local, and international public-sector missions. We work at the intersection of technology, policy, operations, security, and delivery to help public servants use frontier AI in ways that are effective, trusted, aligned with democratic values, and grounded in real-world consequences. The team helps government agencies transform how they work through secure, compliant AI tools and mission-aligned deployments, including ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov, APIs, Codex, and emerging frontier capabilities. We partner with government leaders, operators, technologists, and policy stakeholders to translate cutting-edge AI into measurable mission impact while meeting government requirements for safety, reliability, security, compliance, and trust. Cyber is a critical government mission area. OpenAI's government cyber work brings together OpenAI for Government, Product, Research, Security, Product Policy, Legal, Global Affairs, and Communications to help trusted public-sector defenders responsibly use AI to protect government networks, critical infrastructure, and national-security systems. About the Role We are seeking a senior government cyber leader to serve as Head of Government Cyber Integration for OpenAI for Government. This role will integrate OpenAI's government cyber work across strategy, testing and evaluation, trusted access, deployment, policy, security, and external engagement. This is a matrix leadership role, not a replacement for line management. Product teams still own product roadmaps. Research and Safety still own model capability measurement and risk mitigation. Security still owns OpenAI's security posture and customer security requirements. Product Policy, Legal, and Global Affairs still
Head of Technical Success, Government
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About the team The OpenAI for Government team partners with federal, state, local, defense, national security, and international public-sector organizations to securely and responsibly adopt frontier AI, strengthen public services, and deliver meaningful mission impact. About the role OpenAI is seeking a strategic and deeply technical leader to serve as the Head of Government Technical Success. This leader will oversee the technical functions across the government customer lifecycle, spanning pre-sales engagement, prototype-to-production delivery, and post-sales adoption and value realization. You will define and operate a unified technical success strategy across federal civilian, defense and national security, state and local, international public sector, and industry partners. Your mission is to help customers identify the highest value applications of OpenAI’s technology, navigate th
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Create a seamless technical journey for government customers, including discovery and technical qualification through architecture, prototyping, production deployment, enablement, adoption, and ongoing value realization; Establish clear measures of technical success across the customer lifecycle, including technical qualification, deployment velocity and quality, production use, activation and sustained adoption, account health, renewal and expansion, customer satisfaction, and demonstrated mission outcomes; You’ll thrive in this role if you Bring 10+ years of experience with public sector customers and have a strong track record of building and leading multidisciplinary technical customer-facing organizations across the full customer lifecycle, including developing and leading managers
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