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OpenAI

Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

OpenAI

Strategic Delivery Lead delivering secure OpenAI AI deployments for U.S. Intelligence Community missions.

Posted 8/23/2026full-timeWashington, DC • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $266,000 - $370,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading technical programs and AI deployments within the U.S. Intelligence Community, with a strong focus on translating mission priorities into actionable requirements and ensuring secure, effective delivery across multiple environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
10+ Years Leading Technical ProgramsActive U.S. Government TS/SCI ClearanceExperience with U.S. Intelligence Community CustomersExpertise in AI/ML and Cloud DeploymentsUnderstanding of Intelligence Community Missions

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Hard Skills
AI Application DevelopmentGenerative AI Program LeadershipData IntegrationAPI DevelopmentCloud DeploymentRisk Management Framework (RMF)Acceptance Criteria DevelopmentModel EvaluationCross-Domain ConstraintsDigital Transformation
Soft Skills
Executive PresenceRelationship BuildingAdvising LeadershipCross-Functional Team LeadershipCommunication
Tools & Technologies
OpenAI APIEnterprise SaaSIC CloudRestricted NetworksIdentity and Access Management
Certifications & Qualifications
Full-Scope PolygraphICD 503 Compliance
Industry Keywords
Intelligence CommunityNational Security ConsultingAnalytic TradecraftHuman-in-the-Loop ReviewPrivacy and Civil Liberties Safeguards

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudGoTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations
  • Translate mission priorities into secure, technically feasible AI deployments using the OpenAI API and enterprise products
  • Partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government stakeholders
  • Own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams from discovery through production rollout and sustained adoption
  • Establish mission outcomes, requirements, integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
  • Coordinate secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, and production rollout
  • Surface risks and ensure engagements demonstrate measurable customer value
  • Maintain accountability for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and acceptance criteria
  • Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and acquisition leaders
  • Own complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption
  • Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings
  • Develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection and exploitation workflows, cyber defense, multilingual research, and knowledge retrieval
  • Lead cross-functional teams spanning engineering, solutions architecture, research, product, security, legal, privacy, and customer mission teams
  • Establish delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, and mission-impact indicators
  • Coordinate deployments across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains
  • Work with security and accreditation stakeholders on identity and access management, data handling, cross-domain constraints, RMF, ATO, and ICD 503 requirements
  • Incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring
  • Manage technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks, changing requirements, integration dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and escalations
  • Support relationship-building, opportunity qualification, solution shaping, and proposal development with Account Directors and partners

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting
  • Substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers
  • Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance
  • Willingness to travel up to 50%
  • Willingness to work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities
  • Understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organizations, operating models, and analytic tradecraft
  • Experience supporting agencies or elements such as ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, or NRO
  • Experience leading complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs from discovery through operational deployment
  • Executive presence and experience advising agency leadership, mission owners, contracting officers, and senior technical stakeholders
  • Ability to translate mission outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, evaluation plans, and measurable success metrics
  • Experience delivering systems across multiple classification levels and navigating secure cloud and restricted environments
  • Familiarity with IC enterprise IT, identity and access controls, data governance, cross-domain constraints, RMF/ATO processes, and ICD 503
  • Understanding of modern AI solution architectures, including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, data integration, and model evaluation
  • Experience applying responsible-AI practices, including human-in-the-loop review, analytic objectivity, source and data provenance, privacy and civil liberties safeguards, explainability, adversarial testing, and ongoing model monitoring
  • Existing full-scope polygraph and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements are strongly preferred
  • Existing IC customer relationships are beneficial but not required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
  • 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)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays
  • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge
  • 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
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Wellness stipends
  • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances