Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Counsel, AI Product role sits at a point where SaaS product decisions and legal risk management increasingly intersect. As AI capabilities are packaged into customer-facing software, questions around privacy, copyright, safety, and emerging regulation become part of day-to-day product work rather than occasional escalations. The remit described here reflects that shift, with counsel embedded alongside teams shaping new AI features and modalities.
For a SaaS career, the durable value is learning how to translate novel technical and policy uncertainty into practical product guidance that can scale. The cross-functional exposure implied by partnering with multiple product groups builds fluency in how roadmap, go-to-market considerations, and risk controls connect in modern software companies. Experience establishing repeatable legal processes around evolving AI products is also highly portable across SaaS organizations adopting similar technologies.
This role tends to fit legal professionals who enjoy being close to product development and can operate with sound judgment when precedent is limited. It will suit someone comfortable collaborating across disciplines and moving between issue-spotting and solution design, while keeping a clear line of sight to user impact and long-term platform risk.
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 law, regulatory, and litigation.
About the Role
As a member of our AI Product Counsel team, you will assist with legal initiatives related to our advanced AI products, models, and technologies. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI with a focus on advising product teams on the cutting edge of AI model and product developments, in areas that may span across ChatGPT, including agentic search, and image and video generation.This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of the legal and AI fields.
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:
Be the go-to counsel and partner for several teams focused on frontier AI models and products.
Identify and address product, regulatory, copyright, privacy, and other legal risks and mitigations, including for multi-modal experiences.
Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk.
Become an expert in AI legal matters and help propose and advance AI legal policy positions.
You’ll enjoy this role if you:
Have 5+ years of experience with a mix of in-house or technology-focused law firm roles.
Understand the letter of the law and can approach problems in a practical, principled approach.
Build cross-functional relationships and communication styles that resonate with teams to balance risk-taking with responsible development.
Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
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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