Product & Solutions Lead, Safety and Security at OpenAI

Job Posting

Product & Solutions Lead, Safety and Security

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Intelligence & Investigations

Compensation

• $288K – $425K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

The Intelligence & Investigations (I2) team detects and disrupts abuse and strategic risks so people can use AI safely. We translate real-world signals, investigations, and external threat intelligence into practical mitigations, operating guidance, and partner-ready support that improves safety outcomes across the AI ecosystem.

About the Role

As a Product & Solutions Lead focused on safety and security, you will build and operate 0–1 products, services, and technical solution packages that help developers and public institutions move from experimentation to durable, trusted outcomes—while maintaining public safety, transparency, and respect for privacy and rights.

This role balances two modes of delivery:

1. Bespoke products and technical solutions for strategic internal and external partners, and

2. Scalable product and solution packages that can be reused broadly across partners and deployments.

Training is a component of scale, but not the center of gravity. You will also ship reference implementations, playbooks, evaluation kits, and repeatable operating models that partners can adopt and operate.

You will work directly with engineers and a multidisciplinary group of safety and geopolitical analysts, and data and quantitative scientists to convert complex, evolving challenges into solutions that teams can adopt in high-stakes environments.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid, 3 days/week). Relocation support is available.

In this role, you will:

• Own the 0–1 roadmap for safety and security solution offerings: define the target users, problem statements, tools, operating models, success metrics, and the set of reusable deliverables we ship.

• Design and ship bespoke technical solutions for priority partners (internal and external), then abstract what works into reusable patterns and toolkits.

• Build partner-ready technical artifacts: solution blueprints, reference architectures, evaluation and monitoring guidance, incident/response playbooks, and deployment checklists.

• Package open-source and proprietary capabilities into adoption-ready solutions (e.g., reference implementations, configuration patterns, validated workflows).

• Maintain a consistent delivery model across engagements: intake, scoping, governance alignment, execution cadence, and retrospectives that improve the offering over time.

• Translate evolving threats into actionable guidance and updates for solution packages (e.g., scams/fraud patterns, cyber-enabled threats, ecosystem abuse trends).

• Develop lightweight enablement components as needed: targeted technical modules, hands-on labs, and readiness assessments that accelerate adoption of the solutions.

• Define and instrument impact measurement: adoption milestones, readiness indicators, reliability and safety posture improvements, and partner satisfaction with outputs.

• Partner closely across engineering, safety, geopolitical analysis, and quantitative teams to ensure solutions are technically credible, threat-informed, and measurable.

• Communicate crisply and decision-readily to internal and external stakeholders: progress, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 6+ years in product, technical program leadership, solutions, or platform operations, especially in safety, security, risk, integrity, or enterprise/public-sector contexts.

• Have built 0–1 solution offerings (product plus services or productized services): taking ambiguous needs, shipping something concrete, then scaling it into a repeatable model.

• Have a builder’s mindset: comfortable incubating early-stage ideas, testing them with partners, and evolving them into durable, repeatable safety and security solutions.

• Can go deep with engineers and still produce partner-ready artifacts that are clear