Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community | OpenAI

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OpenAI for Gov - Washington, DC

The OpenAI for Government team is a mission-driven group bringing frontier AI to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and broader national security enterprise. We partner with intelligence professionals to deploy secure, compliant AI capabilities—including ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov, and the OpenAI API in mission-aligned environments that meet rigorous security, privacy, reliability, and responsible-AI requirements.

As part of the OpenAI for Government team, you will work across IC elements and mission partners—including ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, NRO, and other federal intelligence organizations to help analysts, collectors, operators, and technical teams apply frontier AI to their highest-priority missions. We accelerate adoption through hands-on support, mission-specific workflows, tailored enablement, and measurable operational outcomes while preserving human judgment, analytic integrity, and protection of sensitive information.

The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for the Intelligence Community will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. You will help IC customers translate mission priorities—including all-source analysis, intelligence production, collection management, open-source and geospatial exploitation, cyber threat analysis, knowledge discovery, and analyst productivity—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments built on the OpenAI API and enterprise products. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: you will partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government mission, acquisition, and technical stakeholders to align on scope, remove delivery obstacles, and communicate progress from working teams to agency leadership.

You will own end-to-end execution of technical delivery work streams led by Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams. You will establish mission outcomes, requirements, integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria; coordinate secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, and production rollout; proactively surface risks; and ensure every engagement demonstrates measurable customer value. Accountability for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and acceptance criteria sits with you.

This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires technical fluency, deep program-management expertise, executive presence, sound judgment in classified environments, and a commitment to translating novel AI capabilities into trusted, real-world intelligence mission outcomes.

• Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, Chief Information Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, and acquisition leaders to identify and prioritize high-value, mission-ready AI use cases.

• Own delivery of complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption; maintain accountability for contractual milestones, integrated schedules, scope, and mission outcomes.

• Translate intelligence mission requirements, analytic tradecraft, data constraints, and security policies into clear technical requirements, architectural decisions, delivery plans, and executive-level communications; lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings.

• Partner with IC elements, mission integrators, cloud and infrastructure…