Contracts Manager

About the Team

OpenAIs Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields technology AI infrastructure privacy IP corporate employment tax regulatory and litigation who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.

If you are passionate about being a technology contracts manager working on cutting-edge challenges youll thrive here.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced contracts manager to join our commercial legal team. Based in the US you will help lead commercial legal support for OpenAIs rapidly growing business working with teams such as Infrastructure Procurement GTM Finance Product and Engineering.

This is a great opportunity to join OpenAIs commercial legal team negotiating high-impact agreements and helping to build scalable frameworks for responsible growth.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

In this role you will :

Serve as a legal partner for OpenAIs business transactions partnerships and operations.

Collaborate with colleagues from Infrastructure Sales Partnerships Procurement and Operations to ensure terms align with our abilities interests and compliance requirements.

Develop scalable processes and systems to streamline and accelerate the business while managing legal and regulatory risk.

Identify and address commercial product regulatory privacy and other legal issues arising from commercial transactions.

Develop strategies and processes for handling legal issues in creative and scalable ways that support growth.

Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAIs global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions.

You might thrive in this role if you :

Have 15 years of experience across in-house and technology-focused law firm roles.

Bring a strong background in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.

Are comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment and are proactive and independent.

Communicate with clarity and business judgment tailoring advice to enable responsible growth.

Build cross-functional relationships and adapt communication styles to diverse audiences.

Have a strong sense of ownership intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for technology.

Can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous or fast-changing situations.

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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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Legal

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1