# Legal Program Manager

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $162K - $180K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Legal Program Manager at OpenAI, you will independently manage assigned programs and workstreams across Legal priorities, with a focus on emerging user risk. Your portfolio may include sensitive user escalations, intake and response workflows, and improvements informed by recurring issues, with the mix evolving alongside team needs.

## Responsibilities

- Independently manage assigned legal programs and workstreams: define plans, owners, milestones, and dependencies within agreed scope, anticipate blockers, and drive execution.

- Translate counsel's and specialist teams' guidance into repeatable workflows, playbooks, and documentation.

- Build strong partnerships across Legal, Product, Safety, User Operations, Policy, and other teams to clarify ownership, coordinate handoffs, and drive commitments through completion.

- Clarify open questions, gather and verify information, synthesize partner input, and bring recommendations and tradeoffs to the appropriate decision-makers.

- Maintain a reliable source of truth for matters, source documents, owners, deadlines, decisions, and actions.

- Identify recurring issues and execution gaps, propose practical improvements, and lead agreed changes through implementation and adoption.

## Requirements

- Demonstrated experience independently managing programs or projects from planning through delivery in legal operations, business operations, compliance, policy, investigations, or a related field.

- Experience coordinating work across teams, maintaining reliable records, and driving open questions and actions to resolution.

- Improved a recurring workflow, documented the change, and helped others adopt it.

- Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.

- Exercise sound judgment under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and know when to proceed independently or seek guidance.

- Handle sensitive information and difficult subject matter with discretion and care.

## Nice to Have

- Experience working with an in-house legal team or in a technology environment.

- Familiarity with user safety, legal escalations, preservation, incident response, or operational data.

- Resourceful and hands-on, with enthusiasm for AI technology and the ability to learn unfamiliar subject areas.

## What We Offer

- Salary: $162K - $180K

- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

- Relocation assistance to new employees

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## Skills

### Required
- legal operations
- program management
- compliance
- policy

### Nice to have
- user safety
- legal escalations
- preservation
- incident response
- operational data

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