Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Litigation and regulatory work is increasingly central to SaaS companies operating at scale, where product decisions, data handling, and public communications can quickly become legal issues. This Senior Paralegal role sits in that reality, supporting complex disputes and regulatory matters while coordinating across Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, and executive stakeholders in a major technology organization.
For SaaS career builders, the standout value is exposure to how risk is operationalized inside a software business. Case management, preservation workflows, and fact investigations translate directly to the repeatable systems SaaS companies rely on as they expand products, geographies, and partnerships. The remit also signals meaningful involvement in process design, a durable skill in SaaS environments where legal teams are expected to scale their impact through programs and tooling, not only individual matters.
This role best fits a seasoned paralegal who prefers structured ownership and high-trust execution, with comfort navigating ambiguity and multiple workstreams. It will suit professionals who enjoy cross-functional coordination, rigorous documentation, and improving how work gets done, and who want to deepen in-house expertise in issues that increasingly shape modern SaaS operations.
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 an indispensable role in advancing OpenAI's mission by navigating futuristic, foundational legal issues in AI. This is the team for you if you care deeply about doing meaningful and novel work with a team of technology lawyers. The team is composed of various backgrounds, including technology, venture capital, M&A, employment, and tax law.
About the Role
We’re growing our world-class Litigation and Regulatory team and seek an experienced Senior-level Paralegal to support litigation, dispute resolution, and certain regulatory matters related to our business. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI, including work across our Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, and Executive teams. In addition, you will help develop/improve processes and programs to help our team operate efficiently.
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’ll:
Drive case management support including case team coordination, outside counsel management, overall organization and tracking, issue/risk spotting.
Conduct fact investigations including collaborating with teams/individuals throughout the company, document and data identification/collection, witness management and coordination.
Execute and advise on legal preservation workflows.
Develop/Drive process and programs that help our team operate more efficiently.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
10+ years experience as a paralegal on complex litigation and regulatory matters (including competition/antitrust) at an innovative technology company, law firm, or in-house legal department.
A bachelor's degree and/or paralegal certificate from an accredited program.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to exercise good judgment in the face of ambiguity.
Interest in OpenAI's mission and values.
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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