OpenAI

Legal Program Manager (Regulatory Compliance)

OpenAI$125K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in program management, regulatory compliance, or related fields in tech-forward or highly regulated environments.
  • Experience with in-house legal teams preferred; familiarity with regulatory matters and technology.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling compliance programs and translating legal requirements into operational workflows.
  • Ability to manage complex projects, establish milestones, and synthesize input from various functions.
  • Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills; adept at making sound judgments under pressure.
  • Resourceful and hands-on with a passion for AI technology; quick learner of unfamiliar technical concepts.
  • Familiarity with content moderation, online safety, and frontier AI governance is advantageous, with depth in either of the two being valuable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead regulatory compliance programs from initiation to execution, managing scope, risks, and escalation paths.
  • Translate legal guidance into sustainable workflows, controls, and related documentation.
  • Build partnerships across diverse teams like Product, Engineering, and Governance risk to align program goals.
  • Support regulatory inquiries and audits by organizing evidence and ensuring accurate reporting.
  • Maintain a comprehensive source of truth for regulatory obligations and compliance evidence.
  • Identify execution risks and compliance gaps; track remediation and escalate issues as needed.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY.
  • Opportunity to lead initiatives in dynamic areas like AI governance and content moderation.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams provides a collaborative work environment.
  • Potential for professional growth and the ability to influence compliance in emerging markets.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Legal Program Manager focused on regulatory compliance, you will build and manage cross-functional programs that translate counsel's 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. You'll 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 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.


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 artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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