Senior Counsel, AI Product (Enterprise/API)
About The Position
As a member of OpenAI’s AI Product Counsel team, the Senior Counsel advises teams building and deploying business products, including ChatGPT Business, ChatGPT Enterprise, and the API platform. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Safety, Security, Privacy, Strategy, Go-to-Market, and other Legal teams on enterprise product development, model launches, customer data protections, administrative controls, strategic partnerships, and responsible deployment of increasingly capable AI models. The position is based in San Francisco, California, with a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of experience, with a mix of in-house or technology-focused law firm roles.
- Juris Doctor (JD).
- License or qualification to practice in California.
Nice To Haves
- A practical, principled approach to legal issues.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and communicate effectively with teams while balancing risk-taking and responsible development.
- Strong sense of ownership, inquisitiveness, enthusiasm for technology, comfort with continual challenges, and sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic legal partner to teams developing ChatGPT business products, enterprise features, and API offerings.
- Advise on product design and launches involving enterprise administration, data governance, identity and access, connectors and integrations, agentic capabilities, and voice and multimodal experiences in the B2B space.
- Counsel teams on responsible deployment of frontier AI capabilities while balancing customer commitments, safety, security, and privacy.
- Support strategic partnerships and distribution arrangements, including cloud platforms, resellers, and other third-party channels through which customers access OpenAI models.
- Partner with Commercial Legal, Privacy, Security, Safety, Product and Product Policy, and Go-to-Market teams on customer-facing commitments, product terms, launch readiness, and legal and regulatory requirements.
- Identify emerging legal and policy issues across OpenAI’s B2B products and help shape cross-functional strategies to address them.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to new employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
