This executive leadership role is responsible for the design, implementation, and governance of a secure, resilient, and high-performing infrastructure that includes enterprise networking, global security services, identity and access management, telephony and unified communications, and contact center platforms.

Spanning on-premise data centers, multi-cloud environments, and global corporate offices, you will establish comprehensive security frameworks, policies, and standards required to protect our corporate assets and data.

The ideal candidate is a transformational leader who can protect the enterprise from evolving cyber threats while delivering a robust technology foundation that enables business innovation and agility.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Architectural Leadership:

• Develop and own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the network and security portfolio, ensuring tight alignment with business goals and digital transformation initiatives.

• Lead the creation, governance, and promotion of architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for all covered services, including Zero Trust (ZTNA) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) frameworks.

• Drive modernization initiatives across the portfolio, guiding the transition from traditional architectures to modern, automated, and cloud-native solutions to enhance security and eliminate legacy technical debt.

• Champion a culture of innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and providing architectural direction for their adoption to solve complex business problems.

• Serve as the primary architectural authority for the enterprise across network, telephony, and security domains, providing expert guidance to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams.

Domain-Specific Architectural Oversight: Lead and mentor a team of architects, ensuring architectural integrity and strategic alignment across the following key domains:

• Global Network Architecture: Oversee the architecture for all network infrastructure, including SD-WAN, LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and data center networking.

• Global Security Architecture: Define the strategy for enterprise-wide security services, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), IDS/IPS, WAF, CASB, and data loss prevention (DLP).

• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Lead the architectural vision for all IAM services, including authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access management (PAM).

• Platform Security: Drive the security architecture for underlying infrastructure platforms, including operating systems, virtualization, and container platforms (Kubernetes).

• Telephony & Contact Center: Direct the architectural strategy for unified communications (UCaaS/VoIP) and contact center (CCaaS) platforms, ensuring they are secure, resilient, and integrated with enterprise systems.

Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team of principal and senior architects, fostering a collaborative environment of technical excellence and strong business acumen.

• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with C-level executives, business unit leaders, and engineering teams to ensure architectural solutions meet enterprise-wide objectives.

• Act as a key influencer and communicator, articulating complex architectural concepts and their business value to diverse audiences, from technical experts to non-technical executives.

• Partner closely with the CISO organization and IT operations to ensure that architectural designs are effectively implemented, monitored, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field required. Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in information technology, with at least 10 years in an architecture role spanning network, security, or infrastructure. Minimum of 5 years in a formal leadership capacity, with proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing senior architects and technical staff.

• Technical Skills:

• Security Architecture: Deep expertise in security frameworks and technologies, including Zero Trust, SASE, NGFW, IDS/IPS, SIEM, WAF, CASB, DLP, and endpoint security.

• Identity & Access Management: Expert knowledge of IAM principles and protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC), and experience with IGA, MFA, and PAM solutions.

• Network Architecture: Expert knowledge of modern networking principles and technologies, including SD-WAN, BGP, MPLS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and data center networking.

• Cloud Security: Expert knowledge of cloud networking and security architecture in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNETs, Security Groups, IAM, Cloud WAFs).

• Communications Technology: Strong understanding of Unified Communications (UCaaS) and Contact Center (CCaaS) technologies (e.g., Genesys, NICE, Five9) and underlying protocols (VoIP, SIP).

• Platform Security: Familiarity with securing operating systems, virtualization, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Frameworks & Compliance: Strong understanding of industry standards and frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, and SOC2.

• Automation: Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and their role in a DevSecOps model.

Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities:

• Executive Presence: Confident and articulate communicator with the ability to present to and influence senior executives and board-level stakeholders.

• Strategic Vision: Ability to think long-term and create a compelling, business-aligned vision for the future state of the technology landscape.

• Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence, build consensus across diverse teams, and foster strong cross-functional partnerships.

• Business Acumen: Strong ability to understand business drivers and translate them into technical requirements and architectural solutions that deliver tangible value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCIE, TOGAF (at least one required).

• Expert-level cloud architecture or security certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Expert) highly preferred.

• Experience managing departmental budgets and participating in financial planning.

• Experience leading a group of at least 5 enterprise architects.

Benefits

This position comes with competitive compensation and benefits package:

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

1. Comprehensive benefits package

1. Career development and training opportunities

1. Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)

1. Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group

1. Private Health Insurance

1. Pension Plan

1. Paid Time Off

1. Training & Development

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Compensation

• $378K – $420K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem designed to accelerate customer success, secure AI adoption, and drive growth in support of OpenAI’s mission toward AGI. We collaborate closely across internal teams to ensure unified strategy and seamless execution.

About the Role

We are hiring a Global Head of Accenture Alliance to lead and scale OpenAI’s flagship enterprise partnership.

The position carries full responsibility for alliance performance, operating model integrity, and sustained expansion.

In this role you will:

• Own the global Accenture alliance P&L, including revenue growth, deployment velocity, and long-term expansion.

• Run OpenAI’s operating model for the Alliance across joint enterprise programs.

• Serve as OpenAI’s senior executive counterpart to Accenture’s global leadership.

• Set joint priorities, resolve escalations, and drive coordinated execution at scale.

• Direct allocation of OpenAI’s research, product, and GTM resources across Accenture-led engagements.

• Govern Accenture’s access to tiered OpenAI benefits, including engineering engagement, roadmap collaboration, co-build initiatives, and GTM priority, tied to performance.

• Lead co-selling and execution of large, complex enterprise AI Cloud transformation opportunities.

• Engage directly with enterprise executives across procurement, security, legal, risk, and technology functions.

• Ensure Accenture delivers OpenAI enterprise products as part of consulting cycles from strategy through long-term operations.

• Enforce delivery quality, certification standards, and conflict-of-interest guardrails across Accenture’s global workforce.

• Define vertical strategy and lighthouse account selection across priority industries.

• Stand up OpenAI’s dedicated Accenture alliance team across partner management, technical success, enablement, and operations.

• Build leadership bench strength and establish a durable cadence for alliance execution.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or a related field; equivalent practical experience welcomed. Master degree or MBA preferred.

• 8–12+ years of experience in partnerships, channel, business development, or growth roles within SaaS or product-led organizations.

• Deep Accenture experience with trusted senior-level relationships and strong command of internal decision dynamics.

• Ownership of large-scale, multi-year partnerships with full commercial and operational accountability.

• Global systems-integrator leadership experience across sales, delivery, and enablement.

• Direct leadership in complex enterprise transformation deals involving executive sponsors and enterprise governance.

• Proven ability to design and scale joint operating models between large organizations.

• High-stakes execution leadership with comfort operating under accountability.

• Ability to influence cross-functional leaders across product, sales, legal, communications, and partner organizations.

• Platform and services go-to-market fluency.

• Enterprise AI, cloud, and data transformation literacy with credibility among CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise architects.

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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