OpenAI Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences) at OpenAI provides commercial legal support focusing on life sciences transactions. The role involves negotiating complex agreements and advising on regulatory and compliance matters.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our commercial legal team. Based in the US, you will help lead commercial legal support for OpenAI’s rapidly growing business, working with teams such as GTM, Partnerships, Procurement, Finance, Product, Infrastructure, and Engineering.
This is a great opportunity to join OpenAI’s commercial legal team, negotiating high-impact agreements and helping to build scalable frameworks for responsible growth.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, where we follow a hybrid schedule of 3 days in the office per week. Remote candidates will also be considered, and we offer relocation assistance to new employees.
Serve as the legal partner for OpenAI’s business transactions, partnerships, and operations, with a focus on life sciences.
Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams including Go-to-Market, Partnerships, and Research.
Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners, including transactions involving life sciences.
Identify and coordinate issues involving intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and product use with the appropriate specialist teams.
Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders, escalating consequential issues with clear options and recommendations.
Develop and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and training that make routine contracting more efficient and consistent.
Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology in life sciences.
Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAI’s global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Qualification
10+ years of relevant legal experience
Required
10+ years of relevant legal experience
Substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements
Experience with life sciences transactions
Familiarity with HIPAA and transactions involving health data