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OpenAI's Legal team is seeking a Legal Program Manager focused on regulatory compliance to build and manage cross-functional programs that translate legal counsel's guidance into practical, sustainable operations. You will work at the intersection of law, technology, and business to help OpenAI navigate emerging AI regulations and governance requirements.
In this role, you will lead regulatory compliance programs end-to-end, defining scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, and escalation paths. You'll translate counsel's regulatory guidance into repeatable workflows, controls, and documentation—potentially including content moderation disclosures, transparency reporting, appeals workflows, frontier AI model launch readiness, evaluation and risk-management evidence, and incident reporting.
You will build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, User Operations, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Global Affairs, Communications, and Go-to-Market teams to align program priorities and deliverables. You'll support regulatory inquiries, audits, and investigations by organizing evidence and responses to support timely, accurate communication and reporting. A key responsibility is maintaining a reliable source of truth for obligations, controls, decisions, evidence, and reporting to demonstrate compliance readiness and control effectiveness.
You will identify execution risks and compliance gaps, track remediation, and escalate blockers. You'll establish clear success measures and operating cadences while keeping legal conclusions subject to counsel's review. Your initial focus may include content moderation and/or frontier AI governance, with the mix shaped by team priorities and your strengths.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them through its products.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of experience in program management, regulatory compliance, or related fields in a tech-forward or highly regulated environment, including relevant legal, regulatory, or compliance program experience
- Experience working with an in-house legal team; regulatory matters experience and in-house technology experience are strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling compliance programs, translating legal or regulatory requirements into operational workflows, and maintaining reliable documentation and evidence in partnership with counsel
- Ability to take ownership of complex projects, set and achieve milestones, synthesize cross-functional input, and build trust across legal, technical, and business teams
- Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills; ability to exercise sound judgment under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and make progress through ambiguity
- Resourceful and hands-on approach, with enthusiasm for AI technology and ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technical concepts and navigate fast-moving technical environments
- Familiarity with content moderation, online safety, frontier AI governance, data governance, privacy, or emerging technology law is a plus; depth in either content moderation or frontier AI governance is valuable
- Data analysis or SQL skills, or relevant professional qualifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CPA, or CISSP, as a plus
