OpenAI
Corporate Security Manager - Americas
New York City · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- The role is accountable for vendor performance, staffing and training plans, incident readiness, and recurring operational improvements that protect OpenAI's people, facilities, and business activities.
- The ideal candidate combines hands-on operational leadership with independent program ownership, sound judgment, and strong cross-functional partnerships.
- We operate in dynamic, high-visibility environments, including dense urban offices and major events where discretion, credibility, and sound judgment are essential.
Responsibilities
- Assess changing risks, coordinate incident response with GSOC and relevant partners, and ensure timely escalation, accurate reporting, and completion of corrective actions.
- Partner with CorpSec's Event Security Team to coordinate secure operations for internal, external, and offsite events, including occasional domestic and international travel; provide support to the Corporate Security Executive Protection Team on executive travel logistics as needed.
- Establish and strengthen relationships with local law enforcement agencies, local emergency services, peer security organizations, and other external partners to stay current on emerging risks; partner with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, HR, Communications, and IT on security planning, access control, and incident response.
- Own and maintain SOPs, post orders, training materials, and escalation procedures for assigned sites and programs, aligned with CorpSec standards and applicable requirements.
- They anticipate risks, resolve competing operational priorities, build repeatable procedures, and coordinate effective incident responses while escalating material risks and resource decisions through established channels.
- This role reports to the Senior Security Operations Manager and will include both domestic and international travel in support of Event Security, and other CorpSec ongoing and developing initiatives.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of access control, surveillance, visitor management, and intrusion detection systems.
- Proven skill in creating, revising, and executing SOPs to ensure consistent and efficient security practices, alongside training programs for both security personnel and broader teams.
Nice to have
- 10+ years in law enforcement, corporate security, protective services, or comparable operational security roles, with a strong understanding of physical security in corporate environments.
- Law enforcement experience preferred.
- Program Management:
- Demonstrated success owning end-to-end physical security programs across multiple sites, including vendor delivery, staffing, training, incident readiness, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Own security operating plans and program outcomes across assigned sites, including guard coverage, staffing and training plans, access control, visitor management, post orders, and emergency readiness.
Company info
- OpenAI's Corporate Security (CorpSec) team protects our people, places, and operations so that employees can safely pursue our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- The team partners across the company to enable a secure, resilient, and trusted environment that supports both safety and innovation.
- The Corporate Security team works closely with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, Communications, HR, IT, and external partners to maintain a proactive and people-first security posture.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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