The opportunity
OpenAI’s Legal team helps advance our mission by tackling novel legal issues in AI. Our team brings together professionals across technology, privacy, intellectual property, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation.
What you'll do
Independently manage assigned legal programs and workstreams: define plans, owners, milestones, and dependencies within agreed scope, anticipate blockers, and drive execution.
Translate counsel’s and specialist teams’ guidance into repeatable workflows,: playbooks, and documentation. Depending on your portfolio, this may include intake, sensitive user escalations, information gathering, and response coordination.
Build strong partnerships across Legal, Product, Safety, User Operations,: Policy, and other teams to clarify ownership, coordinate handoffs, and drive commitments through completion.
Clarify open questions, gather and verify information, synthesize partner: input, and bring recommendations and tradeoffs to the appropriate decision-makers. Escalate decisions that require changes to priorities, scope, or resources.
Maintain a reliable source of truth for matters, source documents, owners,: deadlines, decisions, and actions. Provide concise reporting on progress, blockers, and decisions needed.
Identify recurring issues and execution gaps, propose practical improvements,: and lead agreed changes through implementation and adoption. Use tools and automation thoughtfully, verify outputs, and assess improvements in quality, timeliness, and partner effort.
What they're looking for
- Have demonstrated experience independently managing programs or projects from: planning through delivery in legal operations, business operations, compliance, policy, investigations, or a related field.
- Have experience coordinating work across teams, maintaining reliable records,: and driving open questions and actions to resolution. Experience working with an in-house legal team or in a technology environment is a plus.
- Have improved a recurring workflow, documented the change, and helped others: adopt it. You can explain what improved and how you assessed the result.
- Take ownership of execution, set and achieve milestones, anticipate: dependencies, and follow through without frequent direction.
