Senior Product Counsel

About the Team

OpenAIs Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAIs mission by tackling innovative fundamental legal issues in AI. If youre passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer 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 member of our Product Counsel team you will advise on a broad range of issues arising from hardware products and technologies with a focus on software that power them. Youll work closely with software engineering product design and business teams from development through launch and ongoing support. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of AI legal issues. This role reports to our DGC of Hardware.

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:

• Work closely with product and engineering teams participate in architecture and product reviews and advise throughout development launch and ongoing support.

• Support software and firmware licensing open-source compatibility and ongoing device support.

• Provide broad product counseling on consumer experiences user terms disclosures marketing claims consumer protection and regulatory requirements.

• Advise and coordinate on product commercial IP privacy security competition and regulatory legal issues so product decisions and external commitments are consistent.

• Build practical guidance and review processes adapt support to changing priorities and take ownership of emerging issues across teams.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8 years of relevant legal experience including substantial product counseling for consumer devices software embedded in hardware gained in-house at a technology-focused law firm or both.

• Can work with engineers on embedded software and firmware hardware dependencies and translate that understanding into practical advice.

• Have experience with software licensing and the legal issues that arise when device software apps and connected services work together.

• Build trusted cross-functional relationships and explain complex issues clearly balancing legal risk with product goals and responsible development.

• Take ownership and bring an adaptable collaborative working style: shift priorities learn unfamiliar issues and move between strategic advice and hands-on problem solving while knowing when to involve specialists.

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

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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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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