Security Operations Manager, Paris

About the Team

Corporate Security helps protect OpenAIs people offices events and operations through practical and risk-informed security programs. The team partners closely with Workplace Legal People/HR Resilience & Safety Executive Operations GSOC regional leaders vendors and building management.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking a Paris-based Security Operations Manager to lead corporate and physical security operations for Paris provide primary support for Brussels and coordinate regional support for Munich Zurich and other European cities as needed. This person will be a trusted security partner for local teams regional stakeholders vendors building management and global Corporate Security peers.

In this role you will:

• Lead day-to-day physical security operations for the Paris office and supporting Brussels operations.

• Coordinate regional security support for Munich Zurich and other European cities where business activity events travel or executive visits require coverage.

• Manage practical security controls including access management visitor workflows vendor coordination incident response emergency readiness and site security documentation.

• Partner with Workplace building management Legal People/HR EHS/Resilience GSOC Executive Operations and local leadership to keep security effective locally appropriate and employee-friendly.

• Support event and executive visit planning with clear escalation paths stakeholder alignment and proportionate risk mitigation.

• Improve vendor performance operational standards reporting and remediation tracking.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8 years of experience in corporate security physical security operations protective services emergency management public service military law enforcement or a closely related operational field.

• Experience leading physical security operations in a modern office environment ideally in technology professional services financial services or another high-confidentiality setting.

• Experience managing security vendors or guard force operations including post orders coverage expectations performance management incident standards and service quality.

• Strong incident management experience including response documentation escalation after-action learning and stakeholder communications.

• Hands-on knowledge of access management visitor management reception security vendor oversight contractor access site emergency readiness and employee-facing security operations.

• A practical understanding of Paris or France corporate security operations with the ability to partner with Legal People/HR Workplace and EHS/Resilience on applicable workplace privacy security and safety considerations.

• Ability to operate across Paris and Brussels with regional support for Munich Zurich and other European cities as needed.

• Professional / Business English required. French-language proficiency is strongly preferred and may be needed for local vendor building management and stakeholder engagement.

• Strong interpersonal skills sound judgment discretion and the ability to handle sensitive issues with confidentiality.

Workplace & Location

Paris France. Regional travel may be required for Brussels Munich Zurich and other European business activities or events.

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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