Vendor Security Technical Program Manager

About this role

About the Team

OpenAI's Vendor Security team helps internal teams work securely with external products, services, and partners. Our work spans software, infrastructure, hardware, professional and managed services, vendor-provided workforces, data, and research. We build the programs and products that help teams understand vendor risk and put effective safeguards in place, protecting our customers, employees, and the company.

About the Role

We are looking for a Vendor Security Technical Program Manager who can make sound security decisions and turn recurring vendor-security problems into tools and practices that work.

You will independently lead vendor-security engagements: understand the business need, investigate the actual data and access, recommend a practical path, and work with the responsible owners until the safeguards are verified. You will also use what you learn to build and improve bounded tools and workflows, with priorities agreed with the Vendor Security lead.

This is an individual-contributor role for someone who combines technical judgment with useful delivery. You should be comfortable taking a position, explaining the tradeoff, and changing your mind when the evidence changes. Success means internal teams can use vendors securely, reuse work that still applies, and understand what needs to happen next.

In this role, you will:

• Own vendor security engagements from understanding the business need through scoping, assessment, decision, treatment, and reassessment when material facts change. Make assessment decisions independently and use judgment about when to involve peers, specialists, or leadership. Route formal exceptions and risk acceptance to the appropriate decision owners.

• Understand vendor use cases, workflows, user journeys, data flows, identities, access, integrations, and supply-chain dependencies. Identify plausible attack paths and their consequences for OpenAI.