About the Team OpenAI’s 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 fields—technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation—who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company. If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you’ll thrive here. About the Role We are seeking an experienced commercial attorney to join our commercial legal team. You will help lead commercial legal support for OpenAI’s rapidly growing business across the APAC region, working with teams such as GTM, Partnerships, Procurement, Finance, Product, Government Affairs, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering. This is a great opportunity to join OpenAI’s commercial legal team, negotiating high-impact agreements and helping to build scalable frameworks for responsible growth. This role is based in Singapore. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per wee In this role, you will: Serve as the legal partner for OpenAI’s business transactions, partnerships, and operations. 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 commercial transactions. Develop strategies and processes for handling legal issues in creative and scalable ways that support growth. Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology. Collaborate with colleagues across OpenAI’s global legal team to ensure alignment across jurisdictions. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 10+ years of experience across in-house and technology-focused law firm roles. Bring a strong background in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts. Are comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial envi
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The Legal team supports Datadog’s rapid growth by providing a wide range of legal services across a highly dynamic technology company, from driving new business via contracts and compliance efforts, to protecting Datadog’s offerings. Datadog’s Legal team collaborates with virtually every team across the organization, from engineering to product to marketing. Within Legal, the Commercial, Alliances & Procurement team focuses on all commercial engagements, channel and alliances agreements, procurement matters, and related legal topics across Datadog’s global footprint. We are a collaborative, people-first team that values acting as trusted advisors, communicating clearly, embedding inclusion, and holding ourselves accountable. This role offers the chance to play a critical part in the success of a rapidly growing and innovative SaaS company in APJ, with a particular focus on our India and
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Who You Are: A seasoned lawyer (qualified in Singapore or another relevant jurisdiction) with at least 8 years’ law firm and/or in-house commercial transactional experience across Indian and other South East Asian jurisdictions, Someone with deep expertise in advising on Indian law and/or navigating its complex regulatory environments; Someone with integrity, excellent judgment, and a high degree of emotional intelligence; We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements
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We tackle some of the hardest technical problems while delivering a product that "just works" for our customers. And we are backed by some of the best VCs in NYC and the world. Do you want to make a difference? Are you exceptional at your job, and intrinsically motivated by it? Do you eat hard problems for breakfast and find them beautifully simple solutions by lunchtime? Do you ever wish you were there in the early days of these startups everyone is talking about? If so, we want to hear from you.
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