About the Role
About the Team
The Corporate Security team is responsible for safeguarding all OpenAI employees and executives. Our mission is to create a secure, resilient environment that allows our teams to focus on their work without risk or disruption. We manage physical security operations across offices, events, and global initiatives, partnering closely with internal teams and external agencies to stay ahead of emerging threats.
About the Role
As the Corporate Security Operations Manager based in Mountain View, you will own day-to-day site security operations and help develop practical physical-security strategies, policies, and procedures. You will lead vendor-managed armed and unarmed security teams, partner cross-functionally, and serve as a key liaison with local law enforcement and security partners.
This is a hands-on site-operations and guard-force leadership role, not primarily an executive, investigative, or policy-leadership position. The role typically requires 4-5 days in the office each week.
In this role, you will:
- Office Security: Develop, implement, and manage practical physical-security measures, including policies, training, and vendor relationships, to protect employees and visitors across the Mountain View site and nearby facilities.
- Operational Management: Own the day-to-day performance of vendor-managed armed and unarmed security teams across shifts and locations.
- Set clear operational expectations and ensure security personnel understand and consistently follow company policies, post orders, and procedures.
- Monitor security practices, identify operational risks, and drive timely, practical mitigation and remediation.
- Coordinate with Workplace, Facilities, building management, law enforcement, and other internal and external partners to maintain a cohesive security posture.
- Support broader Corporate Security operations as needed.
- Support or lead security operations for on-campus events.
- Serve as the primary poin