Senior Corporate Counsel Job at OpenAI, San Francisco, CA

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  • OpenAI
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI and supporting OpenAI’s growth. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work, 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 Senior Corporate Counsel, you will support and lead mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, warrants and other corporate transactions through the full lifecycle and provide strategic advice to the business on a broad range of transactional matters. This is a unique opportunity to be directly involved in the forefront of the legal and technology field. This role will work closely with our Corporate Development, Finance, Product, People, and other teams and report to our Associate General Counsel, M&A and Strategic Transactions. 

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.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead and support mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, partnerships and other strategic transactions through the full lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, deal structuring, negotiation, due diligence, and execution

  • Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, including definitive agreements, letters of intent, and ancillary documents.

  • Provide strategic advice to the corporate development team, senior management and other internal stakeholders regarding transactions and M&A strategy and deal execution.

  • Work collaboratively with multiple cross-functional teams across the company, including on post-transaction and integration matters.

  • Support the corporate legal team on a broad range of  corporate matters, including financings, liquidity events, corporate governance and international expansion.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have 8+ years of combined, transactional-focused legal experience with fast-paced technology companies and law firms

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

  • Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA

About the Interview Process

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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

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

$250K – $365K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

  • Mental health and wellness support

  • 401(k) plan with 50% matching

  • Generous time off, many company holidays, and multiple coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge.

  • Paid parental leave (24 weeks paid birth-parent leave & 20-week paid parental leave) and family-planning support

  • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

Job Tags

Work at office, Relocation package,

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