Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community
Remote • Washington, DC • FullTime
Posted 22d ago
About the job
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 into secure, technically feasible AI deployments built on the OpenAI API and enterprise products. This role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing, requiring partnership with various internal teams and government stakeholders to align on scope, remove delivery obstacles, and communicate progress. You will own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams, establishing mission outcomes, requirements, roadmaps, and acceptance criteria, while coordinating secure architecture, data integration, and production rollout. 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.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners and leaders to identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases.
- Own the delivery of complex IC engagements from discovery through sustained adoption, maintaining accountability for contractual milestones and mission outcomes.
- Translate intelligence mission requirements and security policies into clear technical requirements, architectural decisions, and delivery plans.
- Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings.
- Partner with IC elements and industry partners to develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection, cyber defense, and knowledge retrieval.
- Lead cross-functional teams to design, evaluate, and deliver generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflow solutions.
- Establish delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, and risk governance.
- Coordinate deployment and integration requirements across classified and unclassified environments.
- Partner with customer leaders to incorporate human oversight, source provenance, and model evaluations consistent with IC's AI ethics principles.
- Anticipate and mitigate technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks.
- Support early relationship-building, opportunity qualification, and proposal development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting.
- Substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers.
- Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance.
- Existing full-scope polygraph.