Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid schedule with 3 days in the office per week. Remote candidates will also be considered, and relocation assistance is available.

Salary: $330K–$366K plus equity.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and safely deploying general-purpose AI products.

What you will do

• Partner with business teams on transactions, partnerships, and operations, with a focus on life sciences.
• Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Provide practical legal advice to Go-to-Market, Partnerships, Research, Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, Procurement, and Finance stakeholders.
• Coordinate intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory, and product-use issues with specialist teams.
• Lead negotiations, manage stakeholders, and advise on consequential issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Develop templates, playbooks, processes, and training to improve contracting efficiency and consistency.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Experience with life sciences transactions.
• Familiarity with HIPAA and transactions involving health data.
• Ability to translate legal and commercial complexity into clear, actionable advice for business stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Sound judgment, ownership, and the ability to move matters forward when facts are incomplete or circumstances change.
• Ability to build trust across functions and communicate principled positions constructively.
• Interest in technology and motivation to learn about AI and its commercial implications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative legal team working across technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, intellectual property, regulatory, and other legal disciplines.
• Opportunity to work with colleagues across OpenAI’s global legal team and align work across jurisdictions.
• Hybrid work arrangement with remote candidates also considered.
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Equity included in the compensation package.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations and legally compliant hiring practices.