Legal Program Manager

The role

You will independently manage assigned legal programs and workstreams with a focus on emerging user risk. You will partner with counsel, technical, and business teams to drive execution and build repeatable processes.

What you will do

• Independently manage assigned legal programs and workstreams
• Define plans, owners, milestones, and dependencies
• Translate counsel and specialist guidance into repeatable workflows, playbooks, and documentation
• Build partnerships across Legal, Product, Safety, User Operations, and Policy teams
• Clarify open questions, gather information, and bring recommendations to decision-makers
• Maintain a reliable source of truth for matters, documents, owners, and decisions
• Provide concise reporting on progress, blockers, and decisions needed
• Identify recurring issues and execution gaps to propose and implement improvements

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience independently managing programs or projects in legal operations, business operations, compliance, policy, investigations, or a related field
• Experience coordinating work across teams, maintaining reliable records, and driving open questions to resolution
• Experience improving a recurring workflow, documenting the change, and helping others adopt it
• Ability to take ownership of execution, set milestones, and anticipate dependencies
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to handle sensitive information and difficult subject matter with discretion
• Resourceful and hands-on with enthusiasm for AI technology
• Ability to learn unfamiliar subject areas and use AI tools thoughtfully

Nice to have

• Experience working with an in-house legal team or in a technology environment
• Familiarity with user safety, legal escalations, preservation, incident response, or operational data

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI through their products.