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
Lead regulatory compliance programs end to end: define scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, and escalation paths, and drive execution with counsel and cross-functional partners.
Translate counsel’s regulatory guidance into repeatable workflows, controls,: and documentation. Depending on your portfolio, this may include content moderation disclosures, transparency reporting, reporting and appeals workflows, or frontier AI model launch readiness, evaluation and risk-management evidence, and incident reporting.
Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, User Operations,: Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Global Affairs, Communications, and Go-to-Market to align program priorities and deliverables.
Support regulatory inquiries, audits and investigations with counsel,: organizing evidence and responses to support timely, accurate communication and reporting.
Maintain a reliable source of truth for obligations, controls, decisions,: evidence, and reporting. Demonstrate compliance readiness and control effectiveness, and improve program timeliness and evidence quality.
Identify execution risks and compliance gaps, track remediation, and escalate: blockers. Establish clear success measures and operating cadences, keeping legal conclusions subject to counsel’s review.
What they're looking for
- Have 6+ years of experience in program management, regulatory compliance, or: related fields in a tech-forward or highly regulated environment, including relevant legal, regulatory, or compliance program experience.
- Have experience working with an in-house legal team; regulatory matters: experience and in-house technology experience are strongly preferred.
- Have demonstrated experience building and scaling compliance programs,: translating legal or regulatory requirements into operational workflows, and maintaining reliable documentation and evidence in partnership with counsel.
- Take ownership of complex projects, set and achieve milestones, synthesize: cross-functional input, and build trust across legal, technical, and business teams.
