Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)

The role

You will serve as a legal partner for business transactions, partnerships, and operations with a focus on life sciences. You will draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements and provide legal advice to various business teams.

What you will do

• Serve as the legal partner for business transactions, partnerships, and operations, with a focus on life sciences.
• Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams including Go-to-Market, Partnerships, and Research.
• Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Identify and coordinate issues involving intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and product use.
• Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Develop and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and training.
• Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology in life sciences.
• Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAI’s global legal team.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Experience with life sciences transactions.
• Familiarity with HIPAA and transactions involving health data.
• Ability to translate legal and commercial complexity into clear, actionable advice.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and take ownership.
• Ability to build trust across functions and communicate a principled position.
• Motivation to learn about AI and its commercial implications.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.