OpenAI - Head of Secure Manufacturing and Stealth

• Own the strategy and execution of supply chain programs that protect OpenAI’s most advanced projects and systems. • Lead cross-functional initiatives with Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Security to establish controls for preventing leaks, data loss, and supply chain compromise. • Conduct proactive risk assessments and investigations across production and partner environments, including third-party and vendor ecosystems. • Develop, enforce, and audit policies and practices to protect confidentiality and control access at production and integration sites. • Collaborate with technical and operational teams to close detection gaps, strengthen monitoring capabilities, and implement tailored countermeasures across cyber, physical, and human domains. • Partner with external suppliers, vendors, and law enforcement to ensure global consistency in security practices and incident response. • Continuously refine processes and security controls based on lessons learned and the evolving threat landscape. • Have 8+ years of experience in global production, supply chain security, product secrecy, counterintelligence, insider risk, or related investigative/operational domains. • Bring a deep understanding of production environments, hardware lifecycle, and supply chain risks, with hands-on experience implementing safeguards in global operations. • Demonstrate unimpeachable integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to handle confidential matters with discretion. • Possess strong expertise in security tooling and risk frameworks, and physical security systems. • Have proven ability to lead complex programs and write clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical audiences. • Excel at cross-functional collaboration, building trust with engineers, operations, legal, and external partners to drive adoption of security controls. • OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.