Associate General Counsel, Commercial â APAC
Associate General Counsel, Commercial â APAC
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About the Team
OpenAIs Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fieldstechnology AI infrastructure privacy IP corporate employment tax regulatory and litigationwho collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.
If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges youll thrive here.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced commercial attorney to serve as our first commercial legal hire in the APAC region. Based in Singapore you will lead commercial legal support for OpenAIs rapidly growing business across APAC working with teams such as GTM Partnerships Procurement Finance Product Infrastructure and Engineering.
This is a unique opportunity to shape OpenAIs commercial legal presence in the region negotiating high-impact agreements and helping to build scalable frameworks for responsible growth.
We operate on a hybrid work model of three days per week in the office and offer relocation support for new employees.
In this role you will:
Serve as the primary legal partner for OpenAIs business transactions partnerships and operations in APAC.
Provide practical business-oriented legal advice to teams including Sales Partnerships Finance Procurement and Operations.
Identify and address commercial product regulatory privacy and other legal issues arising from APAC commercial transactions.
Develop strategies and processes for handling legal issues in creative and scalable ways that support growth.
Monitor and advise on APAC-specific regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology.
Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAIs global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 15 years of experience across in-house and technology-focused law firm roles.
Are comfortable operating as a first hire in-regionentrepreneurial proactive and independent.
Bring a strong background in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.
Possess deep knowledge of APAC legal frameworks and cross-border contracting.
Communicate with clarity and business judgment tailoring advice to enable responsible growth.
Build cross-functional relationships and adapt communication styles to diverse audiences.
Have a strong sense of ownership intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for technology.
Can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous or fast-changing situations.
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 addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
