Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Projects
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as the legal partner for business transactions, partnerships and operations with a focus on life sciences. You'll draft, structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements, advise teams like Go-to-Market, Partnerships and Research, coordinate specialist teams on IP, privacy and regulatory issues, and build templates, playbooks and training.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant legal experience
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements
- Experience with life sciences transactions
- Familiarity with HIPAA and health data transactions
- Ability to translate legal complexity into actionable advice
Responsibilities
- Serve as legal partner for business transactions, partnerships and operations with a focus on life sciences
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to Go-to-Market, Partnerships and Research teams
- Draft, structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements with customers, vendors and partners
- Coordinate IP, privacy, security and regulatory issues with specialist teams
- Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders
- Develop templates, playbooks, processes and training
- Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI in life sciences
- Collaborate with the global legal team across jurisdictions
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation support
- Performance-related bonus
