Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
May 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As Associate General Counsel, Executive Compensation & Benefits at OpenAI, you will lead legal support for executive compensation, employee benefits, and equity compensation programs, playing a critical role in advancing the company’s mission through innovative legal work in AI.
- • You will advise on executive compensation, employee benefits, severance, incentive, equity, retention, and global benefits arrangements; serve as the primary legal advisor for the Compensation Committee; counsel on equity compensation programs; partner with cross-functional teams including People, Finance, Equity, Accounting, Tax, and Investor Relations; support compensation aspects of strategic transactions; and develop scalable legal processes for compensation governance.
- • You will join OpenAI’s Legal team, which comprises professionals from diverse fields including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation, working to tackle fundamental legal issues in AI while supporting the company’s mission to ensure artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in executive compensation, equity compensation, and global benefits administration; gain influence at the board and executive level; shape compensation governance frameworks; and contribute to high-impact strategic initiatives in a fast-paced, mission-driven technology environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • JD and license or qualification to practice law in California
- • 12+ years of combined legal experience at fast-paced technology companies and technology-focused law firms
- • Significant experience advising on executive compensation, equity compensation, employee benefits, global benefits administration, and compensation governance
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work on innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI with a mission-driven organization
- • Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week in San Francisco
- • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including People, Finance, Equity, Accounting, Tax, and Investor Relations on high-impact compensation and benefits initiatives
Skills & Technologies
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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