Agent Standards Specialist, Global Affairs

About the Team

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly our Global Affairs team builds authentic collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders seek to shape policy so that it aligns with and supports our mission.

About the Role

As AI agents move from answering questions to taking action across the internet the standards that govern identity delegated authority discovery communications agentic-commerce and payment interfaces agent-facing web access agent-specific provenance and auditability will determine whether agents can operate safely interoperably and with clear accountability. OpenAI is looking for an Agent Standards Manager to lead execution of our external technical standards strategy for a defined set of agent standards workstreams.

This role will work closely with Agent Security Applied and Platform teams Product Legal GRC Global Affairs and GTM to turn OpenAIs technical architecture and controls into credible specifications protocol profiles assurance criteria and implementation guidanceand to bring emerging external requirements back into product and security roadmaps before they become blockers. The positions developed here are technical standards positions not broad public-policy positions.

This is a builders role as much as an external-facing role. You will execute a prioritized standards plan author and negotiate protocols build coalitions secure the right internal approvals and represent OpenAI in assigned technical forums. You will also help create repeatable processes that let the company shape agent standards without depending on a single person or relying on technical teams to carry external standards work on top of their core jobs.

The Agent Standards Manager is an integrator not the owner of every underlying technical system. Security Product Engineering and other designated technical teams retain ownership of architecture threat models controls product decisions approvals and implementation. This role owns workstream planning standards translation drafting negotiation external representation within approved mandates commitment traceability and implementation handoff.

In this role you will:

• Own a focused workstream plan for core agent identity discovery and delegated-authorization standards with adjacent agentic-commerce web-access provenance and auditability work assigned through portfolio prioritization.

• Recommend where OpenAI should lead shape monitor oppose or decline to participate within the assigned workstream based on technical maturity governance quality strategic leverage implementation readiness and company priorities.

• Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions that preserve distinctions among the human or service principal agent workload or runtime task session resource and policy decision.

• Shape requirements for scoped delegation attenuation step-up approval revocation credential custody runtime binding discovery interoperability agent-specific provenance and auditable action trails.

• Embed with Agent Security and Applied or Platform teams to translate internal architecture and controls into technically credible specifications profiles white papers and assurance evidence without overstating maturity or deployment status.

• Lead review and approval paths across Product Security Engineering Legal GRC Global Affairs and GTM; maintain clear mandates red lines owners dependencies and external commitments.

• Represent OpenAI in priority venues and coalitions such as IETF and OAuth-related work FIDO OIDF W3C AAIF and relevant NIST or ISO efforts; build trust with peer companies standards operators and public-sector stakeholders.

• Bring external standards intelligence back into product security compliance and go-to-market decisions early enough to shape roadmaps and avoid retrofit launch procurement or market-access friction.

• Contribute reusable playbooks decision records contribution patterns and handoffs that reduce key-person risk across the assigned workstream.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have strong experience in technical standards internet protocols identity and access security architecture applied cryptography or closely related product or infrastructure work.

• Have authored edited or materially shaped normative specifications profiles drafts or conformance requirements in serious technical standards or open-source governance settings.

• Can reason clearly about OAuth and OIDC FIDO or WebAuth workload identity HTTP signatures delegated authority credential lifecycle revocation provenance and auditability; you do not need to be expert in every layer.

• Understand that agent trust is a composed stack rather than a single credential and can separate principal agent runtime task session resource and policy claims.

• Can distinguish adopted standards stable extensions active drafts working-group proposals and exploratory ideasand know how that maturity should change OpenAIs posture.

• Earn trust with engineers and security leaders while also communicating crisply with lawyers product leaders executives policymakers and external standards participants.

• Have strong judgment in ambiguous high-stakes environments and know when to lead compromise oppose escalate or walk away.

• Write clearly negotiate constructively and are comfortable representing OpenAI externally with discretion.

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.

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