Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

OpenAI
Washington
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 266,000 - 370,000 annuallyFunction: Transportation & Fleet OperationsExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Executive presence","Sound judgment","Program management","Stakeholder communication","Risk mitigation"]

Identify, shape, and deliver high-impact OpenAI deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. Translate IC mission priorities into secure, technically feasible AI solutions using the OpenAI API and enterprise products. Lead end-to-end technical delivery across discovery, pilot, security authorization, production rollout, and sustained adoption—owning roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, risk governance, and executive-level communications to ensure measurable mission impact.

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Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

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Job Summary

Identify, shape, and deliver high-impact OpenAI deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. Translate IC mission priorities into secure, technically feasible AI solutions using the OpenAI API and enterprise products. Lead end-to-end technical delivery across discovery, pilot, security authorization, production rollout, and sustained adoption—owning roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, risk governance, and executive-level communications to ensure measurable mission impact.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Transportation & Fleet Operations
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners and leadership to identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases.
  • •Own delivery from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption, including contractual milestone accountability.
  • •Translate mission requirements, analytic tradecraft, data constraints, and security policies into technical requirements, architecture decisions, delivery plans, and executive communications.
  • •Lead cross-functional teams across forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, research, product, security, legal, privacy, and customer mission teams to design, evaluate, and deliver AI solutions.
  • •Establish delivery operating rhythms and governance (roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risk/decision governance, reporting) to demonstrate measurable mission impact and operational readiness.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 266,000 - 370,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting with direct delivery experience for U.S. Intelligence Community customers.
  • •An active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance; existing full-scope polygraph and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements are strongly preferred.
  • •Experience delivering complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs through operational deployment in mission-sensitive environments.
  • •Ability to travel up to 50% and work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities.
  • •Knowledge of Intelligence Community missions, operating models, and analytic tradecraft; experience supporting ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, or NRO valued.
Experience:10+ yearsIntelligence communityNational securityEnterprise AICloud deploymentsGenerative AI
Skills:Executive presenceSound judgmentProgram managementStakeholder communicationRisk mitigation
Tech Stack:OpenAI APIChatGPT EnterpriseChatGPT GovLarge language modelsRetrieval-augmented generationAgentic workflowsEnterprise SaaSCloudIdentity and access managementRisk Management FrameworkAuthority to OperateICD 503Data integrationModel evaluationRed-teamingBias mitigationHuman-in-the-loop

Eligibility

Security Clearance:TS/SCI

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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