Executive in Residence, Cyber

About the role

OpenAI is seeking an accomplished CISO/CSO or equivalent cybersecurity executive to help security leaders turn frontier AI into practical cyber defense. As an Executive in Residence, you will be a visible industry voice and a trusted peer to senior customer and partner leaders, working alongside our account, technical, product, research, and deployment teams.

We are looking for someone security leaders already want to hear from in person and digitally. You bring a recognized reputation, substantive operating experience, and a record of attracting senior audiences through the quality of your ideas and judgment. Your participation should make an industry agenda more compelling and bring the right leaders into the room.

You will combine invited speaking and executive engagement with the work needed to move customers from interest to adoption. You will also bring field insights into OpenAI’s cyber efforts and advance selected strategic initiatives agreed with cyber leadership.

In this role, you will

• Represent OpenAI in consequential industry conversations. Deliver invited keynotes, contribute to substantive panels, and lead executive briefings on AI and cyber defense. Develop original talks and articles grounded in operating experience, evidence, and practical lessons.
• Convene senior security leaders. Use your reputation and relationships to attract relevant audiences and host candid CISO dinners, closed-door roundtables, and peer discussions. Build lasting relationships across your region or priority industries.
• Help customers make decisions and deploy. Work with account and technical teams to identify priority defensive workflows, build executive sponsorship, address organizational barriers, and shape pilots with clear objectives, owners, and next steps toward deployment.
• Bring the field into product and research. Capture customer needs, adoption barriers, and deployment lessons. Translate recurring themes into specific recommendations for product, research, and field teams, and help assess whether changes address the underlying problem.
• Advance strategic initiatives. Lead selected projects where your executive experience, industry relationships, or ability to coordinate across teams can accelerate progress. Establish the intended outcome and follow through with the relevant owners.
• Strengthen field effectiveness. Help teams prepare for senior security conversations, develop useful executive briefing materials, and turn engagements into sustained relationships and agreed actions.
• You will prioritize independently invited thought leadership, major industry forums, and curated executive engagements consistent with the program’s speaking principles. Each engagement should have a clear purpose, an appropriate audience, and an owner for follow-through.

You might thrive in this role if you have

• Experience as a CISO or equivalent security executive with direct accountability for a substantial security program, including difficult decisions about risk, investment, incidents, and organizational change.
• An established reputation among senior security leaders in a relevant region, sector, or the broader industry. You can demonstrate that your participation attracts executive audiences and earns invitations to respected forums.
• A strong speaking record and the ability to hold a room, handle unscripted questions, and lead candid peer discussions. Your communication is clear, technically credible, and useful to the audience.
• Technical depth to discuss security architecture and defensive operations with practitioners, and the judgment to explain the capabilities, limitations, and implications of AI to executives and boards.
• Trusted relationships with CISOs and other senior technology leaders, plus a record of building relationships beyond your existing network.
• Experience turning executive alignment into action across teams, with evidence of adoption, deployment, or measurable improvements in security outcomes.
• The ability to listen closely, exercise discretion, and represent customer needs accurately. You work effectively with commercial and technical colleagues and distinguish evidence from speculation.

Additional experience we value

• Deep experience in technology, retail, telecommunications, life sciences, or healthcare, or a strong regional security leadership network.
• Practical work applying AI to security, leading enterprise technology adoption, or advising organizations through significant changes in security operations.
• Published practitioner work, influential research, or sustained contributions to security communities that demonstrate the substance behind your public reputation.

This role involves regular travel for customer meetings and industry engagements.

How success will be measured

• Demand for your participation in respected industry forums, the relevance and seniority of audiences you attract, and the quality of the discussions you lead.
• Scale and scope of your online presence sharing OpenAI’s message.
• Stronger executive relationships that result in clear customer decisions, well-scoped pilots, and progress toward sustained deployment.
• Specific field insights that influence product, research, or deployment decisions, and delivery of agreed strategic initiatives.
• Practical content and briefings that customers and field teams use, with evidence that engagements lead to useful follow-through.