Contracts Manager, Infrastructure
Contracts Manager, Infrastructure
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USD 165000 - 230000
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About the Team
OpenAIs Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAIs mission by tackling innovative fundamental legal issues in AI. If youre passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology legal professional this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields including technology privacy IP corporate cybersecurity employment tax regulatory and litigation.
About the Role
OpenAI is experiencing rapid growth driving significant expansion in both our product offerings and infrastructure needs. Given the speed of OpenAIs innovation significant growing transaction volumes and ambitious infrastructure buildouts hiring a qualified Contracts Manager dedicated primarily to managing commercial and infrastructure transactions is an urgent and critical need. This role will directly enable OpenAIs business objectives by streamlining and advancing the contracting processes essential to our mission-critical AI products systems and rapidly expanding infrastructure and hardware initiatives.
Skills/experience needed
5 years experience
Must have contract management experience with at least 3 years of experience supporting technology transactions
Strongly preferred substantive knowledge of software agreements services agreements strategic partnerships and infrastructure / compute agreements
Have excellent verbal and written communication analytical collaboration and interpersonal skills
Be motivated self-starter who is able to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
Proactively take ownership of projects by setting and achieving milestones and synthesizing input from cross-functional partners
Have solid organizational skills a strong sense of ownership and enthusiasm about AI technology
Ability to be scrappy and enjoy being continually challenged and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
In This Role You Will:
Draft negotiate analyze and execute complex commercial agreements including customer contracts vendor agreements and strategic partnership arrangements particularly focused on infrastructure-related deals such as compute resources data center agreements and procurement initiatives.
Develop standardize and manage templates and contracting processes to effectively manage increasing transaction volumes and empowering the business to self-serve standard agreements.
Proactively identify and implement scalable process improvements to enhance contracting efficiency reduce cycle times and mitigate risks associated with rapid growth.
Collaborate closely with Product Sales Infrastructure Finance and Procurement teams to deliver solutions-oriented outcomes aligned with OpenAIs strategic priorities.
Maintain flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic environment; as part of a lean high-impact legal team each team member contributes across multiple areas. The candidate will have opportunities to support various domains based on their expertise interests and the organizations evolving needs.
About OpenAI
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.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
