Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Corporate counsel roles are increasingly central in SaaS, where product-led growth, recurring revenue, and rapid expansion create a steady stream of governance and securities questions. This listing stands out because it sits at the intersection of advanced technology and corporate infrastructure, covering the legal mechanics that underpin how a modern software business raises capital, communicates with stakeholders, and maintains compliant operating rhythms.
For a SaaS-focused legal career, the scope signals durable, transferable exposure to how scaled software companies are run. Work spanning board governance, financings, disclosure controls, and entity management builds fluency in the operating model common to subscription businesses, including cross functional partnering with finance, accounting, tax, equity administration, and investor relations. The emphasis on developing and scaling internal frameworks also maps to a recurring SaaS need: turning bespoke legal support into repeatable processes as complexity increases.
This role fits counsel who prefer breadth over narrow specialization and who like balancing structured requirements with ambiguous, high judgment decisions. It also suits professionals who want to be close to strategic transactions while remaining embedded in day to day company operations, particularly in an environment where legal advice must keep pace with evolving technology and regulation.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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, regulatory, and litigation.
About the Role
As a Corporate Counsel, you will support and lead on a broad range of corporate matters, including governance initiatives, capital markets transactions, securities compliance, and other general corporate matters. This is a unique opportunity to be directly involved in the forefront of the legal and technology field. This role will report to our Associate General Counsel, Corporate.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
In this role, you will:
Advise on a broad range of corporate governance matters, including the company’s governance framework and structure, board and committee meeting preparation, minutes, resolutions, governance charters, organizational documents, and corporate policies.
Support and lead capital markets and financing activities, including equity and debt transactions, liquidity events, and other strategic transactions.
Structure, negotiate, and draft transaction documents, and provide strategic counsel throughout all phases of a transaction — from initial structuring and term sheet negotiation through due diligence, execution and closing.
Partner closely with cross-functional teams across the company, including Finance, Investor Relations, Accounting, Tax, Equity, People and other Legal teams, to support corporate and strategic initiatives.
Support securities compliance and disclosure matters in connection with financings, governance initiatives, investor engagement and other corporate activities, including development and maintenance of related processes and controls.
Develop and scale legal processes and frameworks for general corporate matters, including subsidiary governance and entity management, international expansion, equity matters and corporate compliance, in close collaboration with other teams.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have at least 6+ years of combined legal experience at fast-paced technology companies and technology-focused law firms.
Have experience advising on corporate governance, capital markets transactions and securities-related matters for late-stage private companies and/or public companies.
Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
Are humble, thoughtful and operate at the highest level of integrity.
Have exceptional analytical, communication, organizational and project management skills, and are comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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