Cyber Enablement Lead, Gov

OpenAI for Gov - Washington, DC

About the Team

The Adoptionation team within OpenAI for Government helps government organizations turn OpenAI products into durable capabilities and measurable mission impact. This role requires the rare blend of: Evangelist, Educator, Executor, Ambassador, and Orchestrator.

We work alongside government leaders and public servants to move from exploration to confidentation tailored to government missions and operating environments.

By translating the potential of OpenAI’s technology into better individual workflows, stronger teams, and improved public services, we help government customers deepen adoption, build lasting organizational capability, and spend more time on mission.

About the Role

We are seeking a Cyber Enablement Lead to join the AIT team and help government cyber professionals turn Daybreak’s capabilities into stronger defenses and measurable mission outcomes. This is a priority hire, and we are looking for someone who can join as soon as possible.

You will own Daybreak’s product enablement strategy and personally design, execute, and lead the training that brings it to life. Your work will span audience research, curriculum design, script writing, recorded demonstrations and courses, hands-on workshops, executive briefings, and our cyber councils. You will work with both domestic and international customers.

You will work with Authorizing Officials (AOs)at to each audience. Practitioners need practical proficiency; executives need a strategic understanding of our cyber products, their value, and their implications for mission and risk. Success means demonstrated capability, sustained adoption, and better cyber outcomes.

This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel and regular work from government customer sites are required.

In this role, you will:

• Set the vision and own the execution of Daybreak’s government enablement strategy, from audience research and learning objectives to curricula, delivery, and measurable mission impact.
• Serve as a trusted cyber ambassador for OpenAI, leading substantive conversations and exploration of our tools and capabilities with U.S. and international government leaders, customers, and the broader cyber community.
• Shape the narratives that help governments act on AI’s changing cyber landscape, grounding executive briefings, public speaking, and thought leadership in real operational experience.
• Personally lead technical training, live demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and executive conversations that move AOs, CISOs, cyber operators, developers, and senior leaders from interest to action.
• Bring frontline experience into product development. Serve as a key point of contact for Daybreak Blue and Red, translating user feedback, deployment friction, and unmet mission needs into actionable product recommendations.
• Create learning that people can put to work: write scripts, record compelling demos and training, and build interactive labs, digital courses, videos, facilitator guides, and practical playbooks.
• Convene and lead our cyber councils, bringing leaders and practitioners into candid conversations that surface hard questions, share field lessons, and build a community of practice.
• Design for both depth and scale, delivering bespoke engagements for small specialist teams and repeatable learning programs that equip thousands of practitioners to use Daybreak effectively.
• Turn frontier capabilities into practical government workflows across the cybersecurity lifecycle, connecting Daybreak’s applications and deployment requirements to challenges such as critical infrastructure security and defense of critical networks.
• Help define effective human-machine teaming in cyber, developing practical guidance on where AI adds value, where human judgment is essential, and how teams validate results and act responsibly.
• Orchestrate work across product, security, deployment, and customer teams to address adoption barriers and keep enablement technically accurate, operationally relevant, and current as capabilities and requirements evolve.
• Prove the impact: assess demonstrated proficiencyance and mission outcomes to improve every program.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Hold an active security clearance, preferably TS/SCI, and be within the applicable clearance window.
• Bring deep cybersecurity expertise across threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validation, prioritization, remediation, detection, incident response, and recovery, with the judgment to connect these disciplines to real missions.
• Have deep fluency in Daybreak’s capabilities, applications, and deployment requirements, and can translate that knowledge into credible advice and practical government cyber training.
• Have personally built and delivered cybersecurity enablement that changed how people work, from focused engagements with specialist teams to programs reaching thousands of practitioners.
• Are a compelling speaker, writer, educator, and hands-on creator. You can set the strategy, write the script, record the demo, build the lab, and lead the workshop, roundtable, or private executive session.
• Can earn trust in the executive briefing and the technical deep dive, adapting your language, examples, and level of detail while giving audiences a clear reason and a practical way to act.
• Know how to read a leader and a room. You combine presence and emotional intelligence with humility, listen carefully, welcome hard questions, and make people comfortable learning something new.
• Understand government cyber missions, security requirements, and operational constraints, ideally across DOW, federal civilian agencies, and state and local government, and can build approaches that work within those realities.
• Turn bold ambition into disciplined execution, leading cross-functional work, incorporating feedback, and taking ownership of demonstrated proficiency, sustained product use, and stronger defenses.
• Have built and led teams of cyber enablement professionals, setting a high bar for technical credibility, teaching quality, and execution while helping others grow.
• Bring a practical understanding of U.S. cybersecurity laws, regulations, and policies, and can explain what they mean for government adoption and deployment.
• Have served in a government cyber role and bring a deep commitment to the people behind the mission, including public servants, warfighters, and the intelligence community.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$207K – $230K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.