Senior Counsel, Product (Marketing)

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. This is the team for you if you care deeply about doing meaningful and novel work as a technology lawyer. The team is composed of various backgrounds, including technology, regulatory, M&A, employment, and contract law.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior General Counsel to lead legal support for OpenAI's marketing organization. You'll work closely with marketing, brand, communications, product marketing, growth, performance and creative teams to support campaigns, launches, events, partnerships, and other initiatives that tell OpenAI's story to the world. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of the legal and AI fields while helping a fast-moving marketing organization build creative, impactful, and legally sound programs.

In this role, you will:

- Be the primary go-to counsel for OpenAI's marketing organization.

- Partner with marketing, brand, communications, product marketing, growth, creative, performance and events teams on campaigns across digital, print, social, influencer, email, events, and other channels.

- Advise on advertising, consumer protection, endorsements, promotions, contests, claims, IP, privacy, and marketing-related regulatory issues, including FTC, state UDAP, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, and EU/UK standards.

- Review and approve marketing claims, campaign materials, creative concepts, product launch assets, and brand initiatives in a practical, business-oriented way.

- Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk.

You'll enjoy this role if you:

- Have 10+ years of experience with a mix of in-house and technology-focused law firm roles.

- Understand the letter of the law and can approach problems in a practical, principled approach.

- Can develop systems and mechanisms to work at scale and simplify on behalf of your business partners.

- Build cross-functional relationships and communication styles that resonate with marketing, creative, communications, and product teams to balance risk-taking with responsible development.

- Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

- Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA.

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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