Senior Counsel, AI Product (Enterprise/API)
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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 advise teams building and deploying ChatGPT Business, ChatGPT Enterprise and the API platform, partnering with Product, Engineering, Safety, Security, Privacy, Go-to-Market and Legal teams. You will counsel on product design and launches, support strategic partnerships and distribution arrangements, and identify emerging legal and policy issues in B2B products. The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model of three days in the office per week.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in in-house or technology-focused law firm roles
- JD and license or qualification to practice in CA
- Practical, principled approach to legal problems
- Cross-functional relationship building and communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership and sound judgment in ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Serve as strategic legal partner to teams developing ChatGPT business products, enterprise features and API offerings
- Advise on product design and launches involving enterprise administration, data governance, identity and access, connectors, agentic capabilities and multimodal experiences
- Counsel teams on deploying frontier AI responsibly while balancing customer commitments, safety, security and privacy
- Support strategic partnerships and distribution arrangements
- Partner with Commercial Legal, Privacy, Security, Safety, Product and Go-to-Market on customer commitments, product terms and launch readiness
- Identify emerging legal and policy issues across B2B products
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- 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
