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GTM Strategy & Operations, Policy

OpenAI

San Francisco, CAFull-time$239–265K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$239–265K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

OpenAI is seeking a senior individual contributor to lead go-to-market strategy and operations for its Security & Safety program, partnering closely with Policy. The role translates policy, security, and safety considerations into GTM strategies, operating models, launch plans, and execution mechanisms. It works across product, policy, security, legal, data, and commercial teams to incorporate customer and field needs into recommendations and support adoption of security- and safety-critical products.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Strategic JudgmentOperational JudgmentGo-to-Market StrategyPolicy ImplementationCross-Functional CollaborationCustomer Needs AnalysisMarket AnalysisInitiative Management

Full job description

About the Role We’re looking for a senior individual contributor to lead GTM Strategy & Operations for Security & Safety, in close partnership with the Policy team. This role will help translate policy, security, and safety considerations into clear GTM strategies, operating models, launch plans, and scalable execution mechanisms. You’ll work across Product, Policy, Safety, Security, Legal, Data, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to understand customer and field needs, shape business recommendations, and support the successful adoption of security- and safety-critical products and capabilities. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong strategic and operational judgment with the ability to work effectively on complex policy-adjacent topics. You’ll help ensure that GTM plans reflect relevant policy requirements and that recurring customer and field insights inform future policy and product decisions. In this role, you will:

  • Define the GTM operating model for the Security & Safety program, including ownership, decision forums, planning cadences, and escalation paths.

  • Partner with Policy, Product, Security, Safety, Legal, and Data to translate policy considerations into actionable GTM guidance and operating processes.

  • Develop go-to-market strategy for cybersecurity models, including target customers, use cases, commercialization approach, launch readiness, success metrics, and field enablement.

  • Build mechanisms to capture recurring customer and field needs related to security, safety, application security, and policy implementation.

  • Translate customer feedback and field requirements into recommendations for product roadmaps, policy development, enablement, and operational priorities.

  • Support the operationalization of data-retention policies and related customer or deployment requirements across GTM.

  • Track customer demand, implementation blockers, and market signals to refine GTM strategy and inform Policy and Product partners.

  • Establish operating rhythms that improve coordination across GTM and partner functions.

  • Prepare concise analyses, recommendations, and materials for senior stakeholders and executive decision-making.

  • Drive priority initiatives from strategy through implementation across multiple teams and workstreams.

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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 399 open Policy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$239–265K/yr
  • California median$164–240K/yr22 salary ranges
  • US median$144–197K/yr152 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $252K, is 25% above the California median midpoint ($202K) — in the middle half of Policy salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 34 open Policy jobs in California and 399 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Policy postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (164 postings).
Education
285 of the 399 open Policy jobs (71%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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