# Senior Counsel, Litigation (Safety)

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $330K - $366K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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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 growing our world-class Litigation and Regulatory team and seek an experienced counsel to support litigation matters related to AI model outputs, such as products liability and mass torts.

In this role, you will:

- Provide legal advice and counsel on a wide range of global litigation matters, including first-of-kind products liability, mass torts, model output liability, and commercial disputes.

- Manage and oversee outside counsel in all aspects of litigation matters, including discovery, motion practice, trial preparation, and settlement negotiations.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather relevant information, assess risk, and develop legal strategies to resolve disputes.

- Stay current on relevant laws, regulations, and industry trends, and provide updates and legal guidance to company leadership and stakeholders.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Have at least 10+ years of combined litigation experience, including several in-house at software/online technology companies.

- Have prior experience working on MDLs/JCCPs and other large litigations.

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

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

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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## Skills

### Required
- litigation
- products liability
- mass torts
- model output liability
- commercial disputes
- JD
- CA license

### Nice to have
- MDLs/JCCPs
- large litigations
- AI technology
- online platforms

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