Head of Gtm Business Operations & Strategy, Safety & Security

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market

This role leads GTM business strategy and operations for Security & Safety within OpenAI's GTM organization. It involves shaping how security- and safety-critical products are brought to market, developing operating systems for scaling, defining data retention policies, building go-to-market strategies for cybersecurity models, and translating customer/field needs into product and policy decisions. The role requires strong operational judgment, fluency in safety & security practices, and the ability to build scalable systems and processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define how the Safety & Security program is structured within GTM, including ownership, decision forums, planning cadences, and escalation paths that support a resilient and scalable operating model.
  2. Develop and operationalize data retention policies across products, customer segments, and deployment scenarios in close partnership with Product, Security, Policy, Safety, Legal, and Data.
  3. Build go-to-market strategy for cybersecurity models, including target customers, use cases, commercialization approach, launch readiness, success metrics, and field enablement.
  4. Create scalable mechanisms to capture recurring security, safety, and appsec needs from customers and field teams, and translate them into structured inputs for product roadmap, policy, and enablement decisions.
  5. Track customer demand, implementation blockers, and market signals to refine strategy and drive cross-functional execution across Product, Security, Policy, Safety, Legal, Data, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Revenue Operations.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience across GTM strategy, business operations, product strategy, security strategy, consulting, or related functions in high-growth technology environments.
  • Strong fluency in enterprise security and application security, with working knowledge of topics such as data retention, IAM, audit logging, secure development practices, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience translating field requirements and customer feedback into product roadmap input, operational priorities, and scalable GTM programs.
  • Comfortable working with technical products and engaging effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Highly analytical and can turn qualitative feedback and recurring field patterns into clear priorities and action.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives across Product, Security, Legal, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations.
  • Able to move between long-term strategic direction and hands-on execution, and can bring structure to ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Exceptional communicator and collaborator who can influence senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise security requirements
  • appsec expectations
  • evolving customer trust needs
  • enterprise security
  • application security