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Counsel, Commercial

Location
San Francisco, CA (Remote) · Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
7+ years
Listed
31 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • commercial contract drafting and negotiation
  • technology transactions
  • regulatory advisory for AI and technology

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced commercial 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. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

In This Role, You Will

  • Serve as the legal partner for OpenAI’s business transactions, partnerships, and operations.
  • Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams including Sales, Partnerships, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.
  • Identify and address commercial, product, regulatory, privacy, and other legal issues arising from commercial transactions.
  • Develop strategies and processes for handling legal issues in creative and scalable ways that support growth.
  • Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology.
  • Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAI’s global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

  • Have 7+ years of experience across in-house and technology-focused law firm roles.
  • Bring a strong background in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.
  • Are comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment, and are proactive and independent.
  • Communicate with clarity and business judgment, tailoring advice to enable responsible growth.
  • Build cross-functional relationships and adapt communication styles to diverse audiences.
  • Have a strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and enthusiasm for technology.
  • Can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous or fast-changing situations.

About the Team

OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields - technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation - who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.

If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you’ll thrive here.

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, 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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Equal opportunity and legal notices

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.

For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link

Read the original posting

From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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