Vendor Security Program Manager

About the Team

The Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team sits at the core of our mission to ensure our technology benefits humanity safely and securely. We provide security assurances and robust compliance frameworks for our technology, people, and products. Our mission is to build trust with the world in our products and company. Our work is technical yet highly operational, strategically aligning with security and engineering teams to navigate and mitigate risks proactively. We prioritize impact, enable innovation, and foster a culture of continuous compliance and security awareness.

About the Role

As a Vendor Security Program Manager within the GRC team, you will play a crucial role in protecting our organization against external risks posed by suppliers, vendors, partners, and hardware manufacturers. Your responsibilities will include conducting comprehensive security assessments, building a program to manage global supply chain risks, and driving security initiatives across all of our third-party relationships. You will be analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive, capable of translating complex security evaluations into clear, actionable strategies.

This role requires exceptional organizational skills, the ability to effectively communicate across different business functions, and a strong commitment to operational excellence in a dynamic environment.

This role can be based in San Francisco, Seattle, New York or Washington DC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Execute detailed information security risk assessments on third-party vendors, suppliers, partners, and hardware suppliers.

• Develop, build, and continuously improve the security supply chain risk management function at OpenAI.

• Develop, propose, and implement effective controls to mitigate identified supply chain risks.

• Conduct thorough evaluations utilizing penetration tests, security questionnaires, architectural reviews, hardware security analyses, and direct interviews to accurately gauge third-party security maturity.

• Advise internal teams and external suppliers on security requirements, providing remediation strategies to address gaps.

• Build and maintain collaborative partnerships with key internal stakeholders including Infrastructure Security, Product, Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Threat Intelligence to ensure comprehensive security coverage of the hardware and third-party supply chain.

• Streamline and automate supply chain security processes to increase efficiency and reduce manual overhead.

• Continuously monitor emerging threats and trends within the industry, assessing their potential impact on our supply chain.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Proven experience conducting third-party or supply chain security assessments, including building and scaling a supply chain security program.

• An in-depth understanding of information security principles and controls, including data protection, access management, proactive and reactive security measures, and application security.

• Strong technical and analytical skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify and assess risks from external incidents and industry breaches.

• Familiarity with workflow optimization tools such as Zip, Jira, or ServiceNow.

• A passion for integrating new AI technologies into your solutions.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the capability to clearly articulate complex security concepts to diverse audiences.

• A proactive mindset and desire to own and drive security initiatives within a fast-paced environment.

• Knowledge of key security frameworks and standards such as ISO-27001, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, and understanding of key regulatory requirements such as the Trade Agreement Act (TAA)

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.

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