Legal Program Manager

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

As a Legal Program Manager, you will grow and manage large-scale cross-functional legal initiatives relating to regulatory compliance/governance, security, and privacy. This is a unique opportunity to be directly involved in the forefront of legal AI issues. You’ll work with attorneys across a range of practice areas, senior legal program managers, and legal operations team members. You will work closely with external counsel to define and execute successful legal systems and processes. You’ll play a hand in building legal solutions that will scale across OpenAI.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with legal, engineering, security, and other business and compliance teams to lead and build legal programs and align internal practices with external commitments and legal obligations.

• Support regulatory inquiries, audits, and investigations by coordinating responses and ensuring timely, accurate communication.

• Work with our Legal team leaders to coordinate workstreams for complex cross-functional initiatives.

• Support operational improvements of various programs, provide insights into overall program performance across the organization, and bring a focus on efficiency and scalability as the organization grows.

• Help establish and maintain documentation and reporting infrastructure.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have at least 5+ years of experience in legal program management.

• Have at least 3+ years of regulatory experience

• Are deeply familiar with regulatory compliance/governance, litigation, security, and/or privacy.

• Proactively take ownership of projects by setting and achieving milestones and synthesizing input from cross-functional partners.

• Have solid organizational and project management skills; have enthusiasm about AI technology; enjoy being continually challenged and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

• Have the ability to navigate fast-paced technical environments.

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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