10+ years of relevant legal experience, particularly in drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
Experience with life sciences transactions is essential.
Familiarity with HIPAA and health data transactions is required.
Ability to simplify legal complexities into actionable business advice for stakeholders.
Strong judgment and ownership in dynamic situations with incomplete information.
Proven ability to build trust and communicate effectively across functions.
Interest in technology and eagerness to learn about AI's commercial implications.
Responsibilities
Serve as the legal partner for business transactions, partnerships, and operations, focusing on life sciences.
Provide practical legal advice to teams such as Go-to-Market, Partnerships, and Research.
Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers and strategic partners.
Identify and coordinate issues related to intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders, providing clear options and recommendations.
Develop and enhance templates, playbooks, and processes for efficient contracting.
Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology in life sciences.
Benefits
Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the office per week.
Remote candidates considered with relocation assistance offered.
Opportunity to work with a rapidly growing team in a cutting-edge field.
Full Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our commercial legal team. Based in the US, you will help lead commercial legal support for OpenAI's rapidly growing business, working with teams such as GTM, Partnerships, Procurement, Finance, Product, Infrastructure, and Engineering.
This is a great opportunity to join OpenAI's commercial legal team, negotiating high-impact agreements and helping to build scalable frameworks for responsible growth.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, where we follow a hybrid schedule of 3 days in the office per week. Remote candidates will also be considered, and we offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Serve as the legal partner for OpenAI's business transactions, partnerships, and operations, with a focus on life sciences.
Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams including Go-to-Market, Partnerships, and Research.
Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners, including transactions involving life sciences.
Identify and coordinate issues involving intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and product use with the appropriate specialist teams.
Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders, escalating consequential issues with clear options and recommendations.
Develop and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and training that make routine contracting more efficient and consistent.
Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology in life sciences.
Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAI's global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
Have experience with life sciences transactions.
Are familiar with HIPAA and transactions involving health data.
Can translate legal and commercial complexity into clear, actionable advice for business stakeholders and senior leaders.
Exercise sound judgment, take ownership, and move matters forward when facts are incomplete or circumstances change.
Build trust across functions and can communicate a principled position while working constructively toward a solution.
Enjoy improving processes and creating practical tools that help a growing team scale.
Are curious about technology and motivated to learn about AI and its commercial implications.
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.
