Qualified Security Manager

About the Team

The Corporate Security (CorpSec) team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of our people and facilities. We are committed to maintaining a secure environment that enables our team to focus on advancing artificial intelligence in a responsible manner.

About the Role

OpenAI is hiring a Qualified Security Manager to provide operational leadership for executive protection services and to support the establishment and ongoing administration of OpenAI’s state-licensed security entity (PPO) . This role is critical to ensuring regulatory compliance, tactical readiness, and operational continuity to support protective operations and formalize in-house compliance capabilities. The role provides centralized accountability for PPO administration and training for armed personnel employed through our licensed PPO entity..

You’ll be responsible for:

• Overseeing executive protection vendors supporting executive transportation, residence risk mitigation, and related services

• Ensuring operational performance and staffing continuity for executive protection operations

• Supporting the establishment and administration of OpenAI’s California-licensed PPO, including recordkeeping and regulatory readiness

• Serving as the Qualified Manager for the licensed PPO entity following required certification

• Leading operational, safety, medical, and BSIS-mandated training for armed security personnel employed through our licensed PPO entity

• Partnering with the Corporate Security Resilience team and cross-functional stakeholders to align training, compliance, and risk management

We’re looking for someone with:

• Senior leadership experience in law enforcement, military, or protective services

• Experience managing armed security or executive protection operations

• Eligibility to serve as a California BSIS Qualified Manager, with the ability to obtain certification

• Firearms instructor experience and strong knowledge of CA BSIS requirements

• Sound judgment in high-risk, high-visibility environments

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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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