# Senior Product Counsel **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $330K – $366K **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/a58b83f6-2955-4d89-8c13-14372c89263a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_81d31846-9b2 ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this position is $330K – $366K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation. ## About the Role As a member of our Product Counsel team, you will advise on a broad range of issues arising from hardware products and technologies, with a focus on software that powers them. You’ll work closely with software engineering, product, design, and business teams from development through launch and ongoing support. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of AI legal issues. This role reports to our DGC of Hardware. ## Responsibilities - Work closely with product and engineering teams, participate in architecture and product reviews, and advise throughout development, launch, and ongoing support. - Support software and firmware licensing, open-source, compatibility, and ongoing device support. - Provide broad product counseling on consumer experiences, user terms, disclosures, marketing claims, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements. - Advise and coordinate on product, commercial, IP, privacy, security, competition, and regulatory legal issues so product decisions and external commitments are consistent. - Build practical guidance and review processes, adapt support to changing priorities, and take ownership of emerging issues across teams. ## Requirements - Have 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial product counseling for consumer devices, software embedded in hardware, gained in-house, at a technology-focused law firm, or both. - Can work with engineers on embedded software and firmware, hardware dependencies, and translate that understanding into practical advice. - Have experience with software licensing and the legal issues that arise when device software, apps, and connected services work together. - Build trusted cross-functional relationships and explain complex issues clearly, balancing legal risk with product goals and responsible development. - Take ownership and bring an adaptable, collaborative working style: shift priorities, learn unfamiliar issues, and move between strategic advice and hands-on problem-solving while knowing when to involve specialists. - Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA. ## Skills ### Required - product counseling - software licensing - open-source - consumer protection - regulatory requirements - IP - privacy - security - competition law --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/a58b83f6-2955-4d89-8c13-14372c89263a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)