Employment Paralegal

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. 

We seek a Senior Paralegal to join our team and provide paralegal support and coordination across the employment legal team and its cross-functional partners including people and recruiting teams and employment litigation matters, as well as own, manage and build out / scale our paralegal support and function across multiple subject matter areas.  

In this role, you will:

• Day-to-day support on employment legal project management, including document management for employee policies and agreements, onboarding and off-boarding, and advising on long term platform/process improvements.

• Supporting workforce expansions in the US and globally with respect to agreements, policies, and integration.

• Working with People team to centralize team/company-wide paralegal resources including centralized knowledge management, policies, employment agreements, and other processes and improvement initiatives.

• Partnering with internal teams, stakeholders and outside counsel on employment matters.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• 8-10+ years experience.

• Must have in-house experience as a paralegal at a fast paced innovative tech company.

• Deeply familiar with US labor and employment law 

• Experience supporting employment litigation including discovery and coordinating with external counsel

• Familiarity with compliance matters, including audits, government reporting, and internal investigations.

• Have solid organizational skills, effective and collaborative communication style, a strong sense of ownership, and enthusiasm about AI technology; enjoy being continually challenged and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations. 

Nice to have

• AI specific experience 

• Familiar with international employment laws and policies

• Familiar with litigation and investigations, discovery, and legal operations.

• Breadth of experience across litigation/regulatory subject matter, e.g., IP, privacy, employment, antitrust, etc.

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. 

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.