Senior Counsel, Corporate (M&A)

About the Position

Senior Counsel, Corporate (M&A)

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Counsel, Corporate (M&A) to join our Legal team in San Francisco, California. This role involves leading and supporting mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.

Location

• City: San Francisco
• Country: United States
• Remote: No
• Work Location Type: Hybrid

Employment Type

• Type: Full-time

Compensation

• Salary: $280K – $350K per year
• Equity: Included

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws.

Benefits

• 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• 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, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Corporate Counsel, M&A, you will:

• Lead and support mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, partnerships, and other strategic transactions through the full lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, deal structuring, negotiation, due diligence, and execution
• Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents, including definitive agreements, letters of intent, and ancillary documents
• Provide strategic advice to the corporate development team, senior management, and other internal stakeholders regarding transactions and M&A strategy and deal execution
• Work collaboratively with multiple cross-functional teams across the company, including on post-transaction and integration matters
• Support the corporate legal team on a broad range of corporate matters, including financings, liquidity events, corporate governance, and international expansion

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of combined, transactional-focused legal experience with fast-paced technology companies and law firms
• Qualifications:
  • JD
  • License or qualification to practice in CA
• Skills:
  • Strong sense of ownership
  • Inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology
  • Enjoy being continually challenged
  • Demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI and supporting OpenAI’s growth. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are 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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