Legal Operations Specialist in San Francisco

About the Team OpenAI's Professional Services team helps organizations move from AI ambition to durable production outcomes. We partner with customers on complex deployments and build the strategy, commercial models, operating mechanisms, and delivery capacity needed to realize value from OpenAI's models and products. The team works across Go-to-Market, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Data, Systems, and delivery partners. We are building a services motion that is customer-centered, commercially rigorous, operationally scalable, and deliberately connected to product adoption. About the Role We are seeking a senior GTM Strategy & Operations professional to build and scale the operating system for OpenAI's Professional Services business. This is a foundational, hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of business strategy, finance, go-to-market, and delivery. You will turn ambiguous questions—what we offer, how we price and package it, how we plan capacity, and how we measure performance—into clear decisions and repeatable mechanisms. You will own business planning, pricing and packaging, forecasting and modeling, management reporting, and cross-functional strategic initiatives. You will build integrated views of demand, staffing, revenue, margin, and delivery performance; replace one-off analyses with durable processes; and create operating cadences that help leaders act early. You will be a trusted partner to Professional Services, GTM, FDE, Technical Success, Finance, Product, Legal, Revenue Operations, and Data leaders. The right person combines direct Professional Services judgment with rigorous analytics, executive communication, and the willingness to build the model, process, or dashboard themselves. You’ll be responsible for: Define and drive the business and GTM strategy for Professional Services, including target customer needs, offer portfolio, positioning, pricing and packaging, partner motions,

About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. We turn policy intent into operational readiness, review standards, quality systems, escalation paths, automation guardrails, and durable cross-functional operating models. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional Program Manager to help build durable operating systems and run some of OpenAI’s most complex safety operations. The core need is a high-agency operator who can take an ambiguous problem, create the right structure, align cross-functional partners, and drive the work through execution. This role will move across Critical Harm priorities as needs evolve. You may step into operationalizing national security or violent-activities workflows, support wellbeing and Frontier Risk initiatives, or help scale programs such as Trusted Access. Deep domain expertise is helpful but not required; the strongest candidates will learn quickly, exercise excellent judgment, and make complex programs move. In this role, you will: Lead strategic operational builds across priority workflows from problem statement to implemented operating model, including scope, owners, milestones, risks, success measures, and execution cadence. Translate policy, safety, technical, legal, and operational constraints into workflows, requirements, playbooks, escalation paths, and decision-making structures that teams can execute. Coordinate with User Ops leadership, Product Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, i2, Legal, Product, Engineering, Support, vendors, and other partners to resolve dependencies and keep critical work moving. Move in and out of workflows as priorities shift—standing up new programs, stabilizing operations, improving handoffs, and transitioning durable ownership to the right team. Use operational data and frontline signals to identify bottlenecks, quality gaps, ca

About the Team The Account & Platform Integrity Operations team protects OpenAI’s ecosystem by ensuring that users, developers, partners, and organizations can access and build on our platform safely and responsibly. The team works across account integrity, fraud prevention, abuse detection, and platform risk to prevent bad actors from exploiting OpenAI’s products and developer surfaces. This role will sit within the Account & Platform Integrity Operations team while partnering closely with teams across the Ecosystem organization to ensure the platform can scale rapidly without compromising trust, quality, or safety. About the Role - Platform Operations Program Manager As OpenAI's developer ecosystem expands, we're building the operational foundation to support the next generation of plugins, MCP apps, agent skills, and integrations. As a Platform Operations Program Manager, you'll partner across Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Security, and Developer Experience to design the systems and operating models that enable ecosystem growth while maintaining quality, trust, and an exceptional developer experience. This role requires strong operational judgment, a deep understanding of developer platforms and APIs, empathy for the developer experience, and the ability to translate evolving product, platform, and policy requirements into scalable operational systems. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - 3 days in office) What You'll Do Own the operational processes that help developers bring apps, plugins, and integrations to market, from submission and review through launch, appeals, and ongoing monitoring. Manage external review partners and policy operations workflows, helping teams apply standards consistently while identifying areas where guidance, process, or quality expectations need to improve. Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Security, Developer Experience, and Go-to-Market teams to turn platform goals and requirements into clear, effec

About the team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the ChatGPT Ads team is building advertising products that help businesses reach customers in useful, trusted, and responsible ways. The Ads Strategy, Planning, and Operations team is responsible for building the operating foundation for OpenAI's advertising business: GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, planning, forecasting, business rhythms, sales programs, incentives, and scalable execution across advertisers, agencies, partners, resellers, and internal teams. This team sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success. About the role We’re looking for a Sales Strategy & Operations Lead to help build the GTM operating system for ChatGPT Ads. This person will work across sales strategy, planning, systems, segmentation, forecasting, operating rhythm, sales programs, and commercial execution to help the Ads business scale with clarity, speed, and control. This role is for someone who can move between strategy and execution: able to define operating models, build analytical frameworks, run cross-functional planning processes, improve GTM systems and data quality, and program manage high-priority sales initiatives. The ideal candidate has meaningful experience in digital advertising, media, adtech, marketplace, or platform businesses and understands the complexity of scaling sales motions across direct sales, agencies, partners, resellers, outsourced channels, and self-serve. In this role, you’ll: Help build the operating foundation for ChatGPT Ads across GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, forecasting, sales planning, and business reviews. Partner with Sales, Ads Ops, Product, Engineering, Strategic Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Data teams to translate strategy into execution. Develop objective frameworks for ac

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our GTM team is uniquely positioned to help customers realize the transformative potential of advanced AI models for their businesses and end users. As an individual contributor on the GTM Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in designing and scaling the operational systems that power our sales organization. This role will serve as a trusted partner to GTM leadership, building the end-to-end ops design for sales lifecycle from lead routing through territory design, opportunity management, deal execution, and delivery readiness. This role combines systems and process design with operational performance management, delivering insights and driving automation to improve field efficiency and velocity. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing Ops, Enterprise Systems, Product, Delivery, Finance, Enablement, Legal, Deal Desk, and Security to develop scalable infrastructure, streamline workflows, and enable scalable growth across the business. In this role, you will: GTM Data,Governance & Routing: Create a reliable GTM data foundation that makes SFDC easier to use and ensures leads, accounts, and opportunities are accurately routed, defined, enriched, and actionable. Design and manage lead and campaign routing; define requirements and partner with systems and marketing ops on build. Implement alerting, monitoring, an

About the Team OpenAI’s People team is committed to hiring, engaging, and supporting world-class talent to help safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The People Operations team is responsible for the systems, data, and operational rigor that underpin every stage of the employee lifecycle. Our work sits at the intersection of employee experience, regulatory compliance, and business velocity — ensuring that as OpenAI scales rapidly and globally, our foundations remain accurate, auditable, and human-centered. This is a high-trust, high-impact function. We partner closely with Finance, Legal, IT, Security, and the broader People team to support growth in a dynamic environment with significant internal and external scrutiny. Operational excellence here is not about process for process’s sake — it is about building durable infrastructure that enables fairness, transparency, and responsible scale. About the Role As Director of People Operations, you will own the core operational infrastructure that enables OpenAI to scale responsibly. This role serves as the operational backbone of the People function, with accountability for data integrity, operational controls, and audit readiness across the systems that support a complex, global workforce, including the operational foundations of recruiting and hiring at scale. You will lead a team responsible for the end-to-end workforce lifecycle, from candidate and hiring operations through onboarding and offboarding, ensuring our people systems, processes, and data are accurate, resilient, and built to scale.In close partnership with Employment Legal and the People Compliance team, you will translate policy and regulatory requirements into scalable, well-controlled operational processes. This role operates with high visibility and close partnership with senior leaders across Finance, Legal, IT, and People, including ownership of SOX-relevant controls and workforce data relied upon by e

About the Team OpenAI is building Procurement of the future: one that uses AI-enabled systems, clean data, and scalable processes to help the business absorb increasing complexity, speed, volume, and throughput while enabling teams across OpenAI to operate more strategically and at greater scale while managing risk responsibly. The Procurement Operations team supports the operational flow of purchasing across OpenAI, helping teams turn business needs into complete, policy-aligned, and executable procurement activity. We partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Systems, and business teams to improve how requests, suppliers, purchase orders, approvals, data, documentation, and downstream handoffs move through our systems. As OpenAI scales, we are building procurement operations that can absorb increasing complexity without adding unnecessary friction. That means using AI thoughtfully, simplifying where we can, strengthening operating discipline where we must, and continuously improving how our stakeholders experience procurement. About the Role We are hiring two Senior Managers, Procurement Operations to manage the operational backbone of how OpenAI turns requests into committed, controlled, and payable spend. One role will focus on Technology categories, and the other will focus on Corporate Services categories. These roles are not removed from the work. You will be expected to review requests in the system, make or guide request and PO updates, resolve operational issues, and use that firsthand view to identify what needs to change. You will push the envelope without losing the thread on risk, staying close enough to the details to understand where friction, ambiguity, and control gaps show up. You will help improve procurement outcomes across intake, purchase requests, PO quality, supplier coordination, approval workflows, documentation, service delivery, and downstream financial handoffs. You will oversee and improve oper

About the Team The Search research team focuses on building the systems that help AI systems find, retrieve, and use information from the world. We aim to make answers more useful and grounded for more than a billion ChatGPT users. About the Role We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of research and engineering programs that power search. You’ll partner closely with researchers, engineers, and product leaders to turn ambitious goals into clear plans, resolve dependencies, and move complex technical work forward. This role combines technical depth, product judgment, and hands-on execution. You’ll work across retrieval, indexing, and model improvements, while collaborating with policy, legal, and external data partners. You’ll help teams make informed tradeoffs and build practical ways of working that support a fast-moving research environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: Lead programs across model training, retrieval, large-scale indexing, and search infrastructure. Translate evolving goals into prioritized workstreams with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs. Partner with research, engineering, and product leads to define requirements and make tradeoffs across scope, quality, performance, timelines, and cost. Establish program success metrics and use them to guide priorities and track improvements in coverage, answer quality, responsiveness, and trust. Identify technical and cross-functional risks early, drive blockers to resolution, and communicate progress and decisions clearly to teams and leadership. Coordinate with product, policy, legal, and external partners on data access, use, and presentation, helping teams resolve decisions that span technical and non-technical domains. Manage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable processes that help research and engineering teams execute effectively as the search effort grows. You might thrive in this role if you

About the Team The Treasury team is responsible for protecting liquidity, enabling scale, maintaining strong controls, and helping the company operate with clarity and resilience. We work across finance and operational partners to ensure funds move safely, visibility remains high, and Treasury infrastructure keeps pace with a fast-moving business. As hands-on operators and builders, we combine financial judgment with AI, automation, and data to solve problems faster, strengthen controls, and continuously improve how Treasury operates. About the Role We’re looking for a Treasury Manager to own and execute critical activities across OpenAI’s global treasury operations, including cash management, payments, bank account management, forecasting support, controls, and reporting. Beyond day-to-day operations, this person will support Treasury leadership on high-impact projects such as M&A integrations, new legal entity formation, and geographic and currency expansion. They’ll also help build scalable, AI-enabled systems, workflows, and controls for a rapidly growing global business. This is an individual contributor role with broad scope, spanning operational ownership and building an AI-native Treasury function. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. 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: Own core global treasury operations across cash positioning, payments, bank account management, portal administration, forecasting support, and FBAR preparation. Coordinate day-to-day execution for intercompany funding, settlements, investment operations, letters of credit, guarantees, treasury close, and related accounting handoffs. Automate and scale treasury workflows for request intake, approvals, payment tracking, bank account changes, KYC follow-up, access reviews, evidence collection, and issue resolution. Identify recurring processes, manual pain points, duplicate work, control

About the Team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling novel and consequential legal issues in AI. The commercial infrastructure legal team supports the systems and facilities that make advanced AI possible, including compute, first-party silicon, colocation, and first-party data center development. About the Role We’re seeking a senior commercial infrastructure lawyer to lead legal work across our rapidly growing data center development and colocation portfolio. You will advise on complex, high-value transactions involving new data center sites, power, construction, colocation, and related infrastructure arrangements. This role is designed for a lawyer who understands how data centers are developed and operated—not a general real estate practitioner. You will work closely with infrastructure, finance, procurement, and operations teams, while coordinating outside counsel where appropriate, to help projects move quickly and responsibly. San Francisco is preferred, and occasional travel may be required. In this role, you will: Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for data center development and colocation transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on colocation agreements, construction agreements, power-related arrangements, and other contracts supporting data center development. Support first-party projects involving raw land, site and power rights, design and construction, EPC models, third-party build-to-suit structures, and leasebacks. Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, finance, procurement, operations, and other stakeholders on fast-moving, complex projects. Manage and collaborate effectively with outside counsel across a high volume of infrastructure matters. Develop scalable legal playbooks and contracting approaches for a growing portfolio of data center sites. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of legal experience, primarily in commercial legal roles. Deep, hands-on experience

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 professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation. About the Role As a member of our AI Product Counsel team, you will lead legal compliance initiatives for global online safety, platform, and AI regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act, EU Digital Services Act, EU AI Act, and similar emerging frameworks. You will partner closely with Product, Policy, Safety, Engineering, Security, Operations, and other teams to translate complex regulatory requirements into scalable, practical compliance solutions. 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: Serve as the primary legal expert on the Online Safety Act, Digital Services Act, EU AI Act, and related global AI, platform, and online safety regulations. Lead the design and implementation of scalable compliance programs, governance frameworks, controls, and operating processes. Partner with Product, Engineering, Safety, Policy, Operations, and Security teams to translate regulatory obligations into practical product and operational requirements. Monitor emerging regulations and enforcement trends, anticipate their impact, and help shape OpenAI’s compliance strategy. Develop repeatable processes, playbooks, escalation paths, and decision frameworks that enable teams to move quickly while managing risk responsibly. Support engagement with regulators, external counsel, industry groups, and other stakeholders as needed. You’ll thrive in this role if you: Have 10+ years of experience with a mix of in-house or technology-focused law firm roles. Have

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is seeking an Indirect Tax Sr. Associate / Tax Manager to manage global indirect tax compliance, strategy, and reporting, focusing on VAT/GST and sales tax in Canada, the U.S., and other key markets. You’ll manage tax audits, optimize processes, collaborate cross-functionally, drive process and efficiency initiatives, and implement strategies to minimize liabilities while ensuring compliance. Key Responsibilities Manage end-to-end indirect tax compliance, including filings, registrations, and remittances for global VAT/GST, and US sales and use tax Streamline tax workflows, leverage tax automation tools and AI, and enhance data governance to improve efficiency Develop and implement indirect tax strategies aligned with Cohere’s business growth, product offerings (e.g., SaaS, AI services, Sovereign AI), and international expansion. Manage responses to tax audits and inquiries from authorities. Identify and mitigate tax risks, ensuring alignment with global tax regulations and internal policies Address digital services taxes and electronic services implications. Partner with Finance, Legal, and Product teams t

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this Role? Join our team as Senior Counsel, Product and Technology to shape the legal framework for our product development and commercialization. This position offers the exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of technology innovation, intellectual property strategy, and business development, providing critical guidance that enables our products to reach market efficiently while managing legal risks. The ideal candidate is an experienced technology lawyer who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to make a direct impact on product success. As a member of our Legal Team, you will: Create standardized templates, playbooks, and guidelines for product contract terms to improve efficiency and consistency, and ensure alignment with product capabilities. Provide strategic guidance on and manage intellectual property risks across Cohere’s product portfolio, including open source software (OSS) compliance and third-party software integration. Identify and mitigate legal risks throughout the product lifecycle, working closely with product regulatory and commercial counsel to manage regulatory compliance, liability ex

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’re seeking a senior lawyer to participate in commercial legal strategy and execution across OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s long-term infrastructure ambitions. We’re 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 the Associate General Counsel for infrastructure. 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: Own commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI 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 process

About the Role OpenAI’s brands are trusted by hundreds of millions of users around the world. As awareness and adoption of OpenAI’s products continue to grow, so does the volume and sophistication of brand abuse, including impersonation, scams, copycat applications, fraudulent websites, social media misuse, and other forms of online infringement. We are seeking an experienced Brand Protection Manager to build and operate OpenAI’s global brand protection program. This role will lead efforts to identify, prioritize, and address misuse of OpenAI’s brands across websites, social media platforms, app stores, marketplaces, advertising networks, and other online ecosystems. The ideal candidate combines strong operational execution, investigative instincts, and program management skills. They are comfortable working across Legal, Marketing, Comms, Security, Trust & Safety, and external partners to address emerging threats and develop scalable enforcement programs. This role will lead OpenAI’s Brand Protection & Operations function and help ensure that OpenAI’s brands remain trusted, protected, and resilient as the company continues to grow globally. 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: Build and operate OpenAI’s global brand protection program. Monitor and respond to misuse of OpenAI brands across websites, social media, marketplaces, app stores, advertising platforms, and emerging online ecosystems. Develop and manage programs to protect OpenAI products, services, and associated brands. Coordinate investigations and enforcement efforts across online and offline channels. Partner with product, marketing, security, trust & safety, and legal teams to address brand abuse and emerging threats. Develop enforcement playbooks, prioritization frameworks, and escalation processes. Manage relationships with brand protection vendors, mon