About this role
About the Team
OpenAI’s Legal team helps advance our mission by tackling novel legal issues in AI. Our team brings together professionals across technology, privacy, intellectual property, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation. Our regulatory compliance work turns legal requirements into practical programs that support responsible AI development and deployment.
About the Role
As a Legal Program Manager focused on regulatory compliance, you will build and manage cross-functional programs that translate counsel’s guidance into practical, sustainable operations. Your initial focus may include content moderation and/or frontier AI governance, with the mix shaped by team priorities and your strengths.
You will partner with internal and external counsel, other legal program managers, and technical and business teams to coordinate implementation, evidence collection, reporting, and ongoing compliance. You’ll build repeatable systems that scale across regulations, products, and jurisdictions, helping teams navigate emerging requirements with clarity and sound judgment.
This full-time role is based in San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY.
In this role, you will:
- Lead regulatory compliance programs end to end: define scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, and escalation paths, and drive execution with counsel and cross-functional partners.
- Translate counsel’s regulatory guidance into repeatable workflows, controls, and documentation. Depending on your portfolio, this may include content moderation disclosures, transparency reporting, reporting and appeals workflows, or frontier AI model launch readiness, evaluation and risk-management evidence, and incident reporting.
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, User Operations, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Global Affairs, Communications, and Go-to-Market to align program priorities and deliverables.
- Support regulatory inquiries, audits and investigations with counsel, organizing evidence and responses to support timely, accurate communication and reporting.
- Maintain a reliable source of truth for obligations, controls, decisions, evidence, and reporting. Demonstrate compliance readiness and control effectiveness, and improve program timeliness and evidence quality.
- Identify execution risks and compliance gaps, track remediation, and escalate blockers. Establish clear success measures and operating cadences, keeping legal conclusions subject to counsel’s review.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 6+ years of experience in program management, regulatory compliance, or related fields in a tech-forward or highly regulated environment, including relevant legal, regulatory, or compliance program experience.
- Have experience working with an in-house legal team; regulatory matters experience and in-house technology experience are strongly preferred.
- Have demonstrated experience building and scaling compliance progr