Senior Legal Program Manager (Hardware Compliance)

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

About the Role As a Senior Legal Program Manager focused on regulatory compliance, you will lead and manage large-scale, cross-functional initiatives to ensure OpenAI meets its obligations under evolving global regulatory frameworks. Your work will span areas such as AI governance, risk management, transparency, as well as privacy and model compliance. This role places you at the center of emerging legal and compliance challenges in artificial intelligence.

You will collaborate closely with other legal program managers and product teams, and partner with internal and external counsel to build and execute compliance programs that scale. You’ll help define operational systems and legal infrastructure to proactively address regulatory requirements across OpenAI’s products and practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape how cutting-edge AI technology is responsibly developed and deployed within a complex legal and regulatory landscape.

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. In this role, you will: - Lead global compliance for hardware launches, ensuring products meet regulatory and consumer law obligations across all launch jurisdictions.

• Monitor and manage global regulatory requirements for hardware, including tracking regulatory developments and updating compliance plans accordingly. - Own requirements tracking for physical product compliance, including packaging inserts, labeling, and consumer disclosures across markets. - Drive launch readiness for warranties and consumer terms, partnering closely with Product Marketing and Legal.
• Identify risks and drive cross-functional resolution strategies in collaboration with subject-matter experts. You might thrive in this role if you: - 8+ years of experience in program or project management. - Experience managing programs at a fast-paced technology company.
• Deep experience building and scaling hardware compliance programs. - Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional programs, set milestones, and synthesize input from diverse stakeholders. - Strong ability to operate in ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with strong ownership and judgment. 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 OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

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