Legal Program Manager

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About OpenAI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.

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About the Role

You will independently manage legal programs and workstreams, with a focus on emerging user risk, including sensitive user escalations and intake and response workflows. You will partner with counsel and technical and business teams, build playbooks, maintain records, report on progress, and drive process improvements.

Requirements

  • Experience independently managing programs or projects in legal operations, business operations, compliance, policy, investigations or a related field
  • Experience coordinating work across teams and maintaining reliable records
  • Experience improving and documenting a recurring workflow
  • Strong organizational, analytical and communication skills
  • Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion
  • Enthusiasm for AI technology and ability to use and verify AI tools

Responsibilities

  • Independently manage legal programs and workstreams with plans, owners, milestones and dependencies
  • Translate counsel guidance into repeatable workflows, playbooks and documentation
  • Build partnerships across Legal, Product, Safety, User Operations and Policy
  • Gather and verify information and bring recommendations to decision-makers
  • Maintain a source of truth for matters, documents, owners, deadlines and decisions
  • Report on progress, blockers and decisions needed
  • Identify recurring issues and lead process improvements through adoption

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends