Legal - San Francisco and New York City About the Team OpenAI's Legal team helps advance our mission by tackling novel legal issues in AI. Our team brings together professionals across technology, privacy, intellectual property, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation. Our regulatory compliance work turns legal requirements into practical programs that support responsible AI development and deployment. About the Role As a Legal Program Managered by recurring issues, with the mix evolving alongside team needs. You will partner with counselation, coordinate partners, and move open questions toward decisions. As you develop expertise, you'll take on more ambiguous projects and build repeatable processes that help teams work more effectively. This full-time role is based in San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY. 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: Independently manage assigned legal programs and workstreams: define plans, owners, milestones, and dependencies within agreed scope, anticipate blockers, and drive execution. Translate counsel's and specialist teams' guidance into repeatable workflowsation gathering, and response coordination. Build strong partnerships across Legal, Product, Safety, User Operations, Policy, and other teams to clarify ownership, coordinate handoffs, and drive commitments through completion. Clarify open questionsation, synthesize partner input, and bring recommendations and tradeoffs to the appropriate decision-makers. Escalate decisions that require changes to priorities, scope, or resources. Maintain a reliable source of truth for matters, source documents, owners, deadlines, decisions, and actions. Provide concise reporting on progress, blockers, and decisions needed. Identify recurring issues and execution gaps, propose practical improvements, and lead agreed changes through implementation and adoption. Use tools and automation thoughtfully, verify outputs, and assess improvements in quality, timeliness, and partner effort. You might thrive in this role if you: Have demonstrated experience independently managing programs or projects from planning through delivery in legal operations, business operations, compliance, policy, investigations, or a related field. Have experience coordinating work across teams, maintaining reliable records, and driving open questions and actions to resolution. Experience working with an in-house legal team or in a technology environment is a plus. Have improved a recurring workflow, documented the change, and helped others adopt it. You can explain what improved and how you assessed the result. Take ownership of execution, set and achieve milestones, anticipate dependencies, and follow through without frequent direction. Bring strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills. Exercise sound judgment under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and know when to proceed independently or seek guidance. Handle sensitive information and difficult subject matter with discretion and care, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and recognize when counsel or specialist input is needed. Are resourceful and hands-on, with enthusiasm for AI technology and the ability to learn unfamiliar subject areas, use AI tools thoughtfully, and verify their outputs. Bring familiarity with user safety, legal escalations, preservation, incident response, or operational data as a plus. 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 the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation $162K - $180K + Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) 401(k) retirement plan with employer match Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) Mental health and wellness support Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible Relocation support for eligible employees Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.