AI Policy Counsel

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're 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

We’re seeking an AI Policy Counsel to help navigate the increasing AI legislative and regulatory landscape in the US and abroad. We’re looking for a legal self-starter with deep experience in technology policy and a knack for analyzing complex legislative and regulatory proposals for which there is often little precedent. This role reports to our Associate General Counsel of AI Policy.

This role is based in our San Francisco, CA HQ. 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:

• Track, analyze and forecast legislative and regulatory proposals on issues like AI risk management, bias and discrimination, provenance, data transparency, and more,  to understand their impact on OpenAI and the broader AI community.
• Provide strategic policy analysis and advice to the Global Affairs team and other internal stakeholders.
• Help build and iterate on a robust AI governance framework to comply with enacted laws and harmonize our practices with industry best practices, standards, and global governance models.
• Advise internal teams on evolving regulatory and industry standards affecting OpenAI’s business and customers. 

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 5-9 years of legal and policy experience.
• In-house experience strongly preferred. 
• Strong background in technology policy, 
• Create clear and concise writing, distilling complex concepts into simple, explainable, and persuasive ideas.
• Experience analyzing complex legislation.
• Experience engaging with regulators and/or policymakers.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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