Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

About this role

About the team

The OpenAI for Government team is a mission-driven group bringing frontier AI to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and broader national security enterprise. We partner with intelligence professionals to deploy secure, compliant AI capabilities—including ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov, and the OpenAI API—in mission-aligned environments that meet rigorous security, privacy, reliability, and responsible-AI requirements.

As part of the OpenAI for Government team, you will work across IC elements and mission partners—including ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, NRO, and other federal intelligence organizations—to help analysts, collectors, operators, and technical teams apply frontier AI to their highest-priority missions. We accelerate adoption through hands-on support, mission-specific workflows, tailored enablement, and measurable operational outcomes while preserving human judgment, analytic integrity, and protection of sensitive information.

About the Role

The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for the Intelligence Community will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations. You will help IC customers translate mission priorities—including all-source analysis, intelligence production, collection management, open-source and geospatial exploitation, cyber threat analysis, knowledge discovery, and analyst productivity—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments built on the OpenAI API and enterprise products. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: you will partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government mission, acquisition, and technical stakeholders to align on scope, remove delivery obstacles, and communicate progress from working teams to agency leadership.

You will own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams led by Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams. You will establish mission outcomes, requirements, integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria; coordinate secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, and production rollout; proactively surface risks; and ensure every engagement demonstrates measurable customer value. Accountability for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and acceptance criteria sits with you.

This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires technical fluency, deep program-management expertise, executive presence, sound judgment in classified environments, and a commitment to translating novel AI capabilities into trusted, real-world intelligence mission outcomes.

In this role, you will:

- Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, Chief Information Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, and acquisition leaders to identify and prioritize high-value, mission-ready AI use cases.

- Own delivery of complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption; maintain accountability for contractual milestones, integrated schedules, scope, and mission outcomes.

- Translate intelligence mission requirements, analytic tradecraft, data constraints, and security policies into clear technical requirements, architectural decisions, delivery plans, and executive-level communications; lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings.

- Partner with IC elements, mission integrators, cloud and infrastructure providers, industry partners, and academia to develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection and exploitation workflows, cyber defense, multilingual research, knowledge retrieval, and other priority missions.

- Lead cross-functional teams spanning Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Research, Product, Security, Legal, Privacy, and customer mission teams to design, evaluate, and deliver generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflow solutions.

- Establish delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, and measurable indicators of mission impact, user adoption, model quality, and operational readiness.

- Coordinate deployment and integration requirements across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains; work with security and accreditation stakeholders on identity and access management, data handling, cross-domain constraints, the Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate, and applicable IC security requirements such as ICD 503.

- Partner with customer security, privacy, civil liberties, legal, and analytic leaders to incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring consistent with the IC’s AI ethics principles and analytic standards.

- Anticipate and mitigate technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks; manage changing requirements, integration dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and escalation paths while maintaining program velocity and stakeholder confidence.

- Support early relationship-building, opportunity qualification, solution shaping, and proposal development with Account Directors and partners; bring mission and technical insight to commercial strategy, statements of work, customer acceptance, and long-term IC account growth.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

- Have 10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting, including substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers.

- Hold an active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance; an existing full-scope polygra

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