Counsel, Corporate

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Advise on a broad range of corporate governance matters, including the company’s governance framework and structure, board and committee meeting preparation, minutes, resolutions, governance charters, organizational documents, and corporate policies.
• Support and drive capital markets and financing activities, including equity and debt transactions, liquidity events, and other strategic transactions.
• Structure, negotiate, and draft transaction documents, and provide strategic counsel throughout all phases of a transaction — from initial structuring and term sheet negotiation through due diligence, execution and closing.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams across the company, including Finance, Investor Relations, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Equity, People and other Legal teams, to support corporate and strategic initiatives.
• Support securities compliance and disclosure matters in connection with financings, governance initiatives, investor engagement and other corporate activities, including development and maintenance of related processes and controls.
• Develop and scale legal processes and frameworks for general corporate matters, including subsidiary governance and entity management, international expansion, equity matters and corporate compliance, in close collaboration with other teams and leveraging AI.

🎯 Requirements

• Have at least 4+ years of combined legal experience at fast-paced technology companies and technology-focused law firms.
• Have experience advising on corporate governance, capital markets transactions and securities-related matters for late-stage private companies and/or public companies.
• Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Are humble, thoughtful and operate at the highest level of integrity.
• Have exceptional analytical, communication, organizational and project management skills, and are comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Have a demonstrated interest in designing and improving legal workflows and processes through use of AI.
• Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.
• For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.

Skills & Technologies

Hybrid

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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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