Counsel, Employment
Openai·San Francisco·Remote·Posted 26 October 2026
About the role
About the Team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals with expertise spanning technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation. If you’re passionate about meaningful and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. About the Role We are seeking an employment lawyer to help build the legal foundations for OpenAI’s next stage of growth. Working closely with our employment counsel team and colleagues across the company, you will shape practical approaches to challenging employment issues in a fast-growing AI company. This is a hands-on role for a thoughtful lawyer who enjoys variety, moves quickly, and wants to help build a strong employment legal function as the business scales. You will collaborate with experienced employment counsel on US and international employment issues, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and emerging questions about AI in the workplace. A central part of your work will be turning lessons from individual matters into practical policies, guidance, and approaches that work…
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