Counsel, Privacy

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

About the Role

As a Privacy Counsel, you will help develop and lead privacy initiatives for our advanced AI products, models, and technologies. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of the legal and AI fields. This role reports to our Associate General Counsel, Head of Privacy Legal.

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:

• Support OpenAI research, product, engineering, privacy, and security teams in the development and release of cutting-edge AI products and services

• Anticipate and address privacy, regulatory, product, and other legal risks

• Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build scalable, flexible processes to manage risk

• Help build and improve processes for scaling our privacy program as the company grows

• Become an expert in AI privacy matters and help propose and advance AI legal policy positions

You’ll enjoy this role if you:

• Bring at least 6+ years of legal experience, with a mix of in-house and technology-focused law firm roles

• Hold a JD and are licensed or qualified to practice in California

• Provide strategic privacy counsel on complex and emerging technologies in fast-paced environments

• Show a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations

• Excel in communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to diverse audiences

• Take a collaborative and proactive approach, with a track record of working effectively in a cross-functional environment

• Stay ahead of an evolving global regulatory landscape and adapt quickly

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. 

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: prot