Legal Program Manager (Regulatory Compliance)

About the Team

OpenAIs 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. Our regulatory compliance work turns legal requirements into practical programs that support responsible AI development and deployment.

About the Role

As a Legal Program Manager focused on regulatory compliance you will build and manage cross-functional programs that translate counsels guidance into practical sustainable operations. Your initial focus may include content moderation and/or frontier AI governance with the mix shaped by team priorities and your strengths.

You will partner with internal and external counsel other legal program managers and technical and business teams to coordinate implementation evidence collection reporting and ongoing compliance. Youll build repeatable systems that scale across regulations products and jurisdictions helping teams navigate emerging requirements with clarity and sound judgment.

This full-time role is based in San Francisco CA or New York NY.

In this role you will:

• 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 counsels 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 counsels review.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 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.

• Bring strong organizational analytical and communication skills. Exercise sound judgment under pressure adapt to changing priorities and make progress through ambiguity.

• Are resourceful and hands-on with enthusiasm for AI technology and the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technical concepts and navigate fast-moving technical environments.

• Bring familiarity with content moderation online safety frontier AI governance data governance privacy or emerging technology law as a plus. Depth in either content moderation or frontier AI governance is valuable; expertise in both is not required.

• Bring data analysis or SQL skills or relevant professional qualifications such as PMP PMI-ACP CPA or CISSP as a plus.

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.

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