Senior Counsel, Competition

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a senior competition lawyer to lead antitrust matters and regulatory engagements worldwide. The role supports OpenAI’s M&A program, advises on competition risk for business and product strategies, and drives training initiatives.

The position is based in San Francisco or Washington, D.C., with a hybrid model (3 days in the office per week) and relocation assistance available. 10+ years of antitrust experience and a JD with bar admission are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of antitrust experience in a legal role.
• JD and license to practice law in the relevant state.
• Combination of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
• Experience with competition regulators is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead global competition regulatory engagements and RFIs from regulators.
• Support regulatory clearance strategies for acquisitions and investments.
• Advise on competition law for OpenAI’s business and product strategies.
• Develop and deliver competition-law enablement resources and campaigns.
• Collaborate with Corporate Legal, Corporate Development, and policy teams.

Skills

Antitrust experience

Legal leadership

Regulatory strategy

Strong communication

In-house & law firm

Education

JD/Bar license

Active bar license

Job description

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 a senior lawyer to join OpenAI’s small but growing competition legal team and play a leadership role on a wide range of important legal and regulatory matters. This role will involve engaging with competition regulators globally, supporting OpenAI’s active M&A program, providing strategic and actionable legal advice on competition law issues related to our business activities, and driving antitrust enablement and training initiatives.

We’re looking for an agile and experienced competition lawyer who is a self-starter, can operate at a fast pace with a high volume of matters, and is a strong leader and highly collegial team player. This role reports to our Associate General Counsel, Competition.

This role is based in San Francisco or Washington, D.C. 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:

• Support OpenAI’s global regulatory engagements with competition authorities and lead OpenAI’s response to RFIs and other inquiries from competition regulators.
• Partner with our Corporate Legal and Corporate Development teams to support OpenAI’s strategic acquisitions and devise and execute regulatory clearance strategies.
• Collaborate with global policy and regulatory affairs to anticipate and navigate competition scrutiny in the area of AI.
• Advise business and other legal teams on competition law considerations related to OpenAI’s commercial relationships and business and product strategy.
• Develop impactful and effective competition-law related enablement resources and campaigns.

You’ll enjoy this role if you have:

• 10+ years of legal experience in the area of antitrust.
• Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in the state you reside.
• A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
• Experience working for a competition regulator is a plus.
• Expertise in the evaluation of antitrust risk and the development and execution of regulatory clearance strategy for acquisitions, investments, and other strategic transactions.
• Experience leading strategy and responses to competition regulator investigations at a technology company.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in highly technical and fast-moving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities, and the agility to lead several different types of matters.
• A desire to build new things and think creatively about how a competition law practice can deliver measurable business impact.
• Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to distill complexity into actionable, business-aligned guidance.

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.

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