Senior Counsel, Litigation & Regulatory

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises legal professionals from diverse fields, including technology, privacy, IP, corporate, cybersecurity, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation.

We’re growing our world-class Litigation and Regulatory team and seek an experienced counsel to support regulatory matters and investigations, litigation, and dispute resolution related to our business. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI, including work across our Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, and Executive teams.

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.

• Provide legal advice and counsel on a wide range of regulatory matters, including informal inquiries, investigations and enforcement actions in the US and globally.
• Assist with related regulatory litigation and enforcement matters.
• Assist with civil litigation (copyright, trademark, IP, open source, privacy, class actions, competition, and other civil issues), especially where issues dovetail with regulatory scrutiny.
• Assist with discovery and requests for information from regulators and courts.
• Prepare employees to provide deposition and trial testimony and/or appearances before regulators.
• Manage dispute resolution for inbound demands, complaints, or regulatory actions.
• Oversee and choose outside counsel.
• Assist with proactive/affirmative engagement across litigation and regulatory issues.
• Assist with strategy on proactive engagement with regulators.
• Stay current on relevant laws, regulations, and industry trends, and provide updates and legal guidance to company leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather relevant information, assess risk, and develop legal strategies to resolve disputes.

• Have at least 10+ years of combined regulatory investigations and/or litigation experience at innovative technology companies and law firms.
• Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA.

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage;

return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained…