Travel Security Manager - openai

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Corporate Security team supports the safety, security, and resilience of OpenAI employees globally. The Travel Security function helps employees travel safely and confidently while enabling business activity in a complex and fast-changing operating environment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Travel Security Manager, APAC, you will own the regional delivery and continued development of OpenAI's travel security program across Asia-Pacific. You will support the full travel risk management lifecycle, from pre-travel assessment and preparation through active-trip monitoring, incident response, traveler accountability, and post-incident learning.

Reporting to the Global Travel Security Manager, you will be the regional lead for travel security matters across APAC. You will work closely with Corporate Security, Protective Intelligence, Finance, People, Legal, Immigration, Global Mobility, Communications, Information Security, and external providers.

This is a hands-on role for a seasoned travel security professional. You will independently manage complex cases, advise leaders on risk-based travel decisions, support travelers during incidents and crises, and build scalable regional processes. Broad APAC experience is important, and deeper operating experience in East Asia is particularly valuable.

Travel across APAC and occasionally to other regions is expected to comprise approximately 25% of

the role

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IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Own

day-to-day

travel security operations across APAC, including high-risk travel reviews, traveler briefings, monitoring, escalation, incident response, and traveler accountability.

• Produce clear, intelligence-led risk assessments, advisories, decision briefs, and practical mitigation options for employees and senior stakeholders.
• Work with intelligence analysts and external providers to monitor geopolitical, security, health, environmental, and transport risks and turn changing information into timely operational decisions.
• Lead the travel security response to medical emergencies, security incidents, natural disasters, civil unrest, airspace or transport disruption, and other events affecting travelers.
• Maintain regional procedures, playbooks, decision triggers, communications, training, exercises, and after-action reviews.
• Support company events, strategic meetings, executive travel, and other business activity requiring coordinated travel security planning.
• Manage travel risk, medical and security assistance, intelligence, secure transport, and other specialist providers, including service quality, escalation paths, and performance reviews.