Strategic Delivery Lead, Critical Infrastructure

Job description

About the team The OpenAI for Government team is a mission-driven group bringing frontier AI to public-sector and national security missions. We partner with government agencies and their industry counterparts to apply OpenAI’s API and enterprise products to high-priority challenges, with careful attention to security, privacy, reliability, and responsible use. In this role, you will help government agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and technology partners apply frontier AI to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience. You will connect technical teams and mission leaders to develop practical applications for cyber defense and operational preparedness across sectors such as energy, water, healthcare, financial services, and the defense industrial base. We accelerate adoption through hands-on support, tailored enablement, and measurable outcomes while preserving human judgment and protecting sensitive information. About the Role The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for Critical Infrastructure will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact engagements supporting the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure. You will help government and industry partners translate priorities—including cyber defense, vulnerability management, incident preparedness and response, infrastructure risk analysis, and operational coordination—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments. This role sits at the intersection of technical delivery, public-private collaboration, and national cyber strategy. You will work with federal agencies, infrastructure operators, and technology providers to define shared goals and turn promising pilots into sustainable operational capabilities. Internally, you will partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and other teams to align scope, resolve delivery obstacles, and communicate progress from working teams to senior leadership. You will own end-to-end execution of delivery workstreams with Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams. You will establish outcomes, requirements, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria; coordinate integration, evaluation, security review, and rollout; and remain accountable for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and measurable customer value. This is a high-trus…