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Senior Counsel, Competition

OpenAI San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$330K - $366K per year

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Description

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI.

We're seeking a senior lawyer to join OpenAI's small but growing competition legal team and play a leadership role on a wide range of important legal and regulatory matters.

Responsibilities:

  • Support OpenAI's global regulatory engagements with competition authorities and lead OpenAI's response to RFIs and other inquiries from competition regulators.
  • Partner with our Corporate Legal and Corporate Development teams to support OpenAI's strategic acquisitions and devise and execute regulatory clearance strategies.
  • Collaborate with global policy and regulatory affairs to anticipate and navigate competition scrutiny in the area of AI.
  • Advise business and other legal teams on competition law considerations related to OpenAI's commercial relationships and business and product strategy.
  • Develop impactful and effective competition-law related enablement resources and campaigns.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of legal experience in the area of antitrust.
  • Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in the state you reside.
  • A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
  • Experience working for a competition regulator is a plus.
  • Expertise in the evaluation of antitrust risk and the development and execution of regulatory clearance strategy for acquisitions, investments, and other strategic transactions.
  • Experience leading strategy and responses to competition regulator investigations at a technology company.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in highly technical and fast-moving environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities, and the agility to lead several different types of matters.
  • A desire to build new things and think creatively about how a competition law practice can deliver measurable business impact.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to distill complexity into actionable, business-aligned guidance.

Skills

Required

  • antitrust
  • competition law
  • regulatory clearance
  • M&A
  • AI

Nice to have

  • experience working for a competition regulator
  • leading strategy and responses to competition regulator investigations at a technology company

Ready to apply?

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