Cyber Operations Strategist, Critical Harm Operations
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
This is a senior individual contributor role focused on building enforcement systems, operating models, and quality loops for cyber-related safety and risk operations at OpenAI.
The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity expertise across offensive security, threat intelligence, or incident response combined with operational design experience.
Candidates who lack deep technical cybersecurity backgrounds or experience working within ambiguous operational environments should not apply.
The role is based in Ontario, Canada and is expected to transition from remote to an in-office arrangement.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Drive the Cyber Operations operating model across domain priorities, SOPs, escalation paths, quality health, vendor capability, and roadmap inputs.
- 2Serve as the senior cyber expert for complex or high-risk decisions across ChatGPT, API, Codex, agents, and emerging product surfaces.
- 3Translate policy ambiguity, quality misses, and reviewer disagreement into clear decision rules, calibration examples, training, and tooling requirements.
- 4Build durable operating systems and quality loops including golden sets, holdouts, double-labeling, adjudication, and error taxonomies.
- 5Build hands-on solutions such as SQL analyses, scripts, dashboards, and lightweight automations to improve decision quality and reduce manual effort.
- 6Partner cross-functionally with Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, Security, Legal, Product, and Engineering to operationalize changes and drive launch rea
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Grounded Observations to Note
Expected to transition to in-office
"This Toronto-based role is currently remote and is expected to transition to an in-office arrangement."
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