OpenAI Counsel, Employment at OpenAI responsible for building legal foundations for employment issues in a fast-growing AI company. Collaborates on US and international employment matters and develops practical policies and guidance.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an employment lawyer to help build the legal foundations for OpenAI’s next stage of growth. Working closely with our employment counsel team and colleagues across the company, you will shape practical approaches to challenging employment issues in a fast-growing AI company. This is a hands-on role for a thoughtful lawyer who enjoys variety, moves quickly, and wants to help build a strong employment legal function as the business scales.
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.
Help shape OpenAI’s employment legal approach as the company scales, developing practical policies, playbooks, and processes that address recurring issues and support sound, timely decisions.
Collaborate with senior employment counsel and cross-functional partners on a broad range of US employment matters, including recruiting and hiring, performance management, employee conduct, leaves of absence, accommodations, and separations.
Own designated stakeholder relationships and counseling matters, providing clear, practical advice and working independently while drawing on the team’s experience and judgment as appropriate.
Advise on international employment matters and support the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including diligence and workforce integration, collaborating with local and specialist counsel as appropriate.
Partner on strategic projects and emerging legal questions, including the use of AI in employment and workplace practices.
Translate legal developments and lessons from your work into useful guidance, training, brown bags, and office hours for stakeholders across the company.
Manage employment disputes, administrative charges, and related matters in collaboration with colleagues and outside counsel, as appropriate.
Draft and negotiate employment documents and agreements, and identify practical ways to strengthen how the company handles employment matters as it grows.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 7+ years of relevant employment law experience at a law firm, an in-house legal team, or a combination of both, with a record of excellent work and increasing responsibility.
Qualification
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Preferred
Experience advising on international employment matters and the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Experience providing AI-specific employment law advice, including advising on AI enablement, automation, and employee privacy in workplace or product contexts.
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.
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