Senior Counsel, France

About the Position

Senior Counsel, France

Paris, France

About the Team

OpenAI’s Legal team supports OpenAI’s mission by addressing complex legal issues arising from the development and deployment of AI. The team brings together expertise in commercial, corporate, employment, privacy, intellectual property, regulatory, tax, and litigation matters, and works closely with teams across the company.

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced, hands-on lawyer to serve as our country lawyer for France, providing broad legal support for our local office with a primary focus on regulatory and policy legal matters affecting OpenAI’s products, operations, and business.

You will advise on French and EU regulatory developments, develop practical legal positions and recommendations, and support OpenAI’s engagement with French regulators and policymakers. Working closely with EMEA and global legal colleagues, as well as policy and regulatory affairs teams, you will take ownership of assigned French matters, translate complex legal questions into actionable advice, and help ensure that our approach in France is consistent with OpenAI’s wider legal positions.

Alongside your primary focus, you will also provide broader French country legal support, coordinating with specialist teams on local business and operational matters.

Responsibilities

• Advise on regulatory developments and their business implications.
• Support regulatory and policy engagement.
• Support French business initiatives.
• Provide coordinated French country legal support.

Requirements

• Law degree (Master 2 in Law, Bac+5, or equivalent) and substantial experience advising on French law.
• Relevant in-house and/or law firm, government, or institutional legal experience.
• Experience interpreting complex legislation and policy proposals.
• Ability to combine regulatory judgment with practical country-level legal support.
• Sound judgment in unfamiliar areas and ability to distinguish material risks.
• Effective communication and negotiation skills in French and English.
• Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritize according to business needs.
• Interest in AI and emerging technologies.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading AI research and deployment company.
• Be part of a mission to ensure AI benefits all of humanity.
• Work in an inclusive and diverse environment.

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.