Associate General Counsel, Commercial – Infrastructure

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

Were seeking a senior lawyer to lead commercial legal strategy and execution across OpenAIs fast-growing infrastructure portfolio. This is a cross-functional role that will partner closely with procurement supply chain partnerships finance and product teams to structure negotiate and manage the transactions that will support OpenAIs long-term infrastructure ambitions.

Were looking for an experienced infrastructure transactions lawyer who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help define the commercial playbook for infrastructure efforts in the AI era. This role reports to our Deputy General Counsel.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3-days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

This role will:

• Own commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAIs infrastructure transactions.

• Draft negotiate and advise on complex agreements with infrastructure suppliers manufacturers distributors and technology partners.

• Support strategic partnerships involving AI infrastructure and hardware supply chains.

• Develop frameworks for procurement licensing and collaboration across the infrastructure ecosystem.

• Partner with finance and operations teams to align contract terms with business and compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with policy and regulatory colleagues on issues impacting global supply chains export controls and manufacturing.

• Build scalable efficient contracting processes that support OpenAIs infrastructure development at speed while managing risk.

Skills/experience needed

• 10 years of legal experience with substantial focus on technology transactions and commercial contracting.

• A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.

• Expertise negotiating agreements in the infrastructure domain.

• Familiarity with global supply chains infrastructure projects for both buying and building and manufacturing transactions.

• Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in highly technical and fast-moving environments.

• Exceptional communication skills with an ability to distill complexity into actionable business-aligned guidance.

• Experience advising on cross-border deals and global regulatory frameworks.

• Prior experience with infrastructure supply agreements joint ventures or other complex commercial deals in hardware industries is a strong plus.

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.

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