Manager, Cyber - AI Deployment Engineering

In This Role, You Will

• Create, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of cyber deployment specialists supporting strategic customers.
• Own the operating model for the Cybersecurity Specialists function, from discovery and posture assessment through validated pilots and production adoption.
• Help customers identify high-impact OpenAI use cases across vulnerability management, secure code review, application security testing, threat investigation, incident response, SOC operations, and security governance.
• Guide cyber specialists and customer security teams in designing AI-enhanced workflows, automations, evals, and scalable deployment architectures.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer implementations, security-sensitive deployments, and executive customer conversations.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Research, Security, Applied Engineering, Legal, and GTM to align customer outcomes with roadmap priorities and responsible deployment standards.
• Establish repeatable deployment playbooks, lighthouse customer patterns, reference architectures, benchmarks, and field-ready best practices.
• Synthesize customer deployment insights into actionable feedback for internal teams.
• Champion safe, reliable, and effective adoption of AI-powered security workflows across industries.
• You might thrive in this role if you: Have 10+ years of experience in security-related, technical, customer-facing roles such as security architecture, solutions architecture, cyber advisory, technical consulting, deployment engineering, post-sales engineering
• professional services.
• Have 4+ years of experience leading technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing cyber specialists, security architects, or similarly senior technical talent.
• Bring deep cybersecurity domain expertise across one or more areas such as application security, cloud security, vulnerability management, threat detection and response, secure software development, security operations
• security architecture.
• Have deployed generative AI, developer platforms, security platforms, or cloud-based software solutions into production environments at large companies.
• Can reason credibly through modern security workflows such as penetration testing, AppSec, GRC, threat intelligence, threat hunting, red teaming, secure code review, and remediation.
• Are comfortable advising CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical practitioners.
• Can translate complex technical, security, and business topics into clear decisions, practical guidance, and customer-facing recommendations.
• Balance speed, customer impact, security, reliability, governance, and safe adoption in ambiguous environments.
• Success in this role looks like: A strong Cybersecurity Specialists team hired, ramped, and operating with clear engagement standards and prioritization mechanisms.
• Strategic cyber customers moving from early exploration to validated pilots, production deployments, and measurable security outcomes.
• Measurable customer outcomes such as faster threat investigation, improved vulnerability discovery, reduced manual review burden, stronger AppSec workflows, or clearer security posture visibility.
• Repeatable cybersecurity deployment patterns, evals, reference architectures, workshops, lighthouse customer assets, and partner-ready playbooks adopted across the broader field.
• Strong Product, Research, and Security feedback loops informed by real-world customer needs, deployment blockers, and emerging cyber use cases.
• Trusted executive relationships with CISOs and senior security leaders across priority accounts.
• About OpenAI 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
• to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices
• experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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